Water and laws in India /
by Ramaswany R. Lyer
- New Delhi: Sage, 2012.
- xiv, 670p.
- SAGE law .
1.Legal aspects of water resource management / A. Vaidyanathan and Bharath Jairaj -- 2.Water in India : constitutional perspectives / Kamala Sankaran -- 3.Inter-state water disputes : a nightmare! / Fali S. Nariman -- 4.Nation vs. peoples : inter-state water disputes in India's Supreme Court / Radha D'Souza -- 5.Riparianism in Indian water jurisprudence / Tony George Puthucherril -- 6.The ownership of water in Indian laws / Videh Upadhyay -- 7.The human right to water : policies and rights / Upendra Baxi -- 8.Community engagement in water governance / M.S. Vani -- 9.Water use : legal and institutional framework / K.J. Joy and Suhas Paranjape -- 9.Drinking water supply : right and obligation / K.C. Sivaramakrishnan -- 10.Water, women and rights / Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt -- 11.Floods and some legal concerns / Dinesh Kumar Mishra -- 12.Water pollution and contamination / Paritosh C. Tyagi -- 13.Environmental decision-making in India : a critique / Manju Menon and Kanchi Kohli -- 14.The contours of EIA in india / Shyam Divan -- 15.Displacement in the name of development / Himanshu Thakkar -- 16.Groundwater law in India : a new approach / M.S. Vani -- 17.Indian laws and acts on traditional tank irrigation systems / DHAN Foundation -- 18.Water law reforms in India : trends and prospects / Philippe Cullet and Roopa Madhav -- 19.Water law for India : science and philosophy perspectives / T.N. Narasimhan -- 20.A synoptic survey and thoughts on change / Ramaswamy R. Iyer.
A compendium on the various issues and questions that arise in relation to water in its different aspects and uses. It addresses aspects like: what is the nature of water? Is it a basic life-need and therefore a basic right, or an economic good (or tradable commodity), or a natural resource belonging to the community or the nation?