Implications of Bulk Water Transfer on Local Water Management Institutions: A Case Study of the Melamchi Water Supply Project in Nepal Dhruba Pant

2008 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Bulk Water ◽  
Water Transfer ◽  
Water Management Institutions ◽  
Local Water ◽  
Management Institutions

Privatization in the Water Industry

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-123
Author(s):  
R. Andreas Kraemer
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Water Policy ◽  
Regulatory Regime ◽  
Water Industry ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Management Institutions ◽  
And Control

Throughout the world, privatization of water supply and the sewerage services is a controversial topic of political debate. Any nationalization, privatization, municipalization, or alteration in the regulatory regime constitutes a significant change of the institutional mechanism of water management. This article, based on a comparative analysis of water management institutions in selected member states of the European Union, addresses water supply and sewerage services in conurbations with centralized supplies. A brief characterization of water services and the water industry is provided in the context of global water policy developments. Three typical regulatory models are described: the British, based on centralized public policy and surrogate competition by statistical comparison; the French, based on competition for temporary monopolies; and the German or middle-European, based on competition for goods and services and control of limited operational monopolies. A typology of privatization is also presented. This article does not seek to argue that one model is better than another.

scholarly journals From Herding to Farming under Adaptation Interventions in Southern Kenya: A Critical Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruben Weesie ◽  
Angela Kronenburg García
Keyword(s):  
Water Access ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Technological Adaptation ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Pastoral Landscapes ◽  
Pastoral Communities ◽  
Local Water ◽  
Management Institutions

Improving water supply for irrigable farming and livestock purposes in communities in Africa is an increasingly popular approach for community-based adaptation interventions. A widespread intervention is the construction of agro-pastoral dams and irrigation schemes in traditionally pastoral communities that face a drying climate. Taking the Maji Moto Maasai community in southern Kenya as a case study, this article demonstrates that water access inequality can lead to a breakdown of pre-existing social capital and former pastoral cooperative structures within a community. When such interventions trigger new water uses, such as farming in former pastoral landscapes, there are no traditional customary institutional structures in place to manage the new water resource. The resulting easily corruptible local water management institutions are a main consolidator of water access inequalities for intervention beneficiaries, where socio-economic standing often determines benefits from interventions. Ultimately, technological adaptation interventions such as agro-pastoral dams may result in tensions and a high fragmentation of adaptive capacity within target communities.

Empirical assessment of water management institutions in northern China

2010 ◽  
Vol 98 (2) ◽  
pp. 361-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiuqiong Huang ◽  
Jinxia Wang ◽  
K. William Easter ◽  
Scott Rozelle
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Northern China ◽  
Empirical Assessment ◽  
Water Management Institutions ◽  
Management Institutions

Redefining the Game in Local Water Management Conflict: A Case Study

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (15) ◽  
pp. 4307-4316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suman Ranjan Sensarma ◽  
Norio Okada
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Local Water
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