Right to Water in India's national water policies

2021 ◽  
pp. 84-150
Author(s):  
Deepti Acharya
Keyword(s):  
Water Policies ◽  
National Water

Regulation of Water

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Water Policy ◽  
State Level ◽  
The State ◽  
Water Law ◽  
Water Regulation ◽  
Water Policies ◽  
Broad View ◽  
National Water

This chapter focuses on legal instruments that take a broad view of water regulation. There are, as yet, no framework statutory instruments at the state or Union level but drafts have been prepared and this chapter reproduces the latest draft National Water Framework Bill. The next section then moves on to water policies that have been adopted at the Union and state level for some years, highlighting here the National Water Policy, 2012. The last section focuses on an upcoming area of water law, inter-sectoral allocation of water, an issue that is not yet well covered in legal instruments. This section highlights some state-level instruments that seek to address the issue.

Evolution of the Greek national regime for water resources

Water Policy ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 481-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleftheria Kampa ◽  
Hans Bressers
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Institutional Context ◽  
Water Law ◽  
Regime Theory ◽  
Integrated Water Management ◽  
Water Policies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Public Resource ◽  
Resource Degradation ◽  
National Water

This paper characterizes and explains the development of the Greek national water regime, based on a framework from institutional resource regime theory. The specific framework combines public resource policies with property rights and operationalizes the concept of integration for resource regimes. The paper concentrates on attempts at more integrated water management in Greece (via important national water laws), which were mainly driven by increasing water resource degradation and EU water policies. It is argued that national attempts since the 1980s (especially the 1987 Water Law) were unsuccessful also under the influence of an unfavourable institutional context which prevailed at the time of the attempts. The outcome of a new 2003 Water Law in practice remains to be seen. The path to integration must involve significant efforts to overcome institutional obstacles which hindered integrated water management in the past.

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