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

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.

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Comparison of Water Management Institutions and Approaches in the United States and Europe—What Can We Learn From Each Other?

Competition for Water Resources ◽

10.1016/b978-0-12-803237-4.00024-0 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 423-441 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

M. Pulido-Velazquez ◽

F.A. Ward

Keyword(s):

Water Management ◽

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Water Management Institutions ◽

Management Institutions

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

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su10124386 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (12) ◽

pp. 4386 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

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.

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