Design And Practice Of Water Allocation Rules

Transition from local level management to state regulation: Formalization of water allocation rules in Pakistan

Institutions, Technology, and Water Control

Few studies of resource management have paid as much attention or intelligently surveyed the operational aspects of Water Users Associations (WUAs) as Institution, Technology and Water Control. Relying on ethnographic research methods, Narain takes an interdisciplinary approach to examine how institutions are shaped by technology. Calling attention to the internal organisational dynamics of the WUAs, the author argues that the emergence of institutions for collective action is shaped by technology and social relationships.

Impact Assessment of Rehabilitation Intervention in the Gal Oya Left Bank

Background on the gal oya left bank system and its rehabilitation; The intervention impact assessment model; Results from the impact assessment analysis; Comparison wuth other studies and observations; Evaluation of the importance of exogenous variables; Evaluation of the impacts of rehabilitation.