Water first: Issues and challenges for nations and communities in South Asia/ edited by Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt; Robert J Wasson

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Placing Water First; National and Regional Water Concerns; The Monsoon Rivers of South Asia; The Politics of Water in Colonial India; The Regional Politics of Water Sharing; Global Conventions and Regulations on International Rivers; River-linking and its Discontents; Water Quality and Economic Growth in India; When a Public Health Story Goes Sour; Arsenic Contamination of Ground Water; Gender and Integrated Water Resources Management in South Asia; Institutions for Integrated Water Resources Management; Top-down or Bottom-up? Watershed Development Programmes and Rural DevelopmentBeyond 'Dispositif' and 'De-politicization'; Submerged Voices and Transnational Environmentalism; Negotiating Water Management in the Damodar Valley; Endogenous Water Resource Management in North-East Bangladesh; Everyday Waterscapes; The Ganga (or the Problems of Translation); About the Editors and Contributors; Index