IV. Readings*

Brief descriptions and references are provided in section 3-‘Resource Material in a Nutshell’



Module 1: Introduction to Integrated Water Resources Management



1. Introduction to Integrated Water Resources Management
Author: N C Naryanan

Link:  http://www.saciwaters.org/CB/iwrm/modules/Module1.pdf
1.1 Hydraulic Mission to IWRM: Paradigm Shifts within Water Sector Development
Author: N C Narayanan

Link:  http://www.saciwaters.org/CB/iwrm/Lecture%20Notes/1.Hydraulic%20Mission%20to%20IWRM_N
%20C%20Narayanan.pdf
1.2 Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM): A Way to Sustainability
Author: Info Resources

Link: http://www.inforesources.ch/pdf/focus1_e.pdf
1.3 Integrated Water Resources Management: A Reassessment: A Water Forum Contribution
Author: Asit.K Biswas

Link: http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/AWDO/2007/dp05.pdf
1.4 Integrated Water Resources Management
Author: GWP(Global Water Partnership), Technical Advisory Committee(TAC)

Link: http://www.gwptoolbox.org/images/stories/gwplibrary/background/tac_4_english.pdf
1.5 The Dublin Principles for Water as Reflected in a Comparative Assessment of Institutional and Legal Arrangements for Integrated Water Resources Management
Authors: Miguel Solanes and Fernando Gonzalez-Villarreal

Link: http://www.gwptoolbox.org/images/stories/gwplibrary/background/tac_3_english.pdf
1.6 Introduction to the IWRM Guidelines at River Basin Level
Author: The United Nations World Water Assessment Programme

Link: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001850/185074e.pdf


Module 2: Gender in Integrated Water Resources Management



2. Gender in Integrated Water Resources Management

Author: Seema Kulkarni

Link:  http://www.saciwaters.org/CB/iwrm/modules/Module2.pdf

2.1 Equity and Gender 1: Understanding Class, Caste and Gender

Author: Seema Kulkarni

Link:  http://www.saciwaters.org/CB/iwrm/Lecture%20Notes/2.1.%20Equity%20and%20Gender%20
Understanding%20Class,%20Caste%20and%20Gender_Kulkarni%20Seema.pdf

2.2 Equity and Gender 2 : The Water Context

Author: Seema Kulkarni

Link:  http://www.saciwaters.org/CB/iwrm/Lecture%20Notes/2.2.%20Equity%20and%20Gender%202
_%20The%20Water%20Context_Kulkarni%20Seema.pdf

2.3 Understanding Social Equity: Caste, Class and Gender Axis

Author: Lakshmi Lingam

Link:  http://www.saciwaters.org/CB/iwrm/Lecture%20Notes/2.3%20Understanding%20social%20equity
_Lingam%20Lakshmi.pdf

2.4 Gender, Class, and Access to Water: Three Cases in a Poor and Crowded Delta

Authors: Ben Crow and Farhana Sultana

Link: http://www.farhanasultana.com/publications/Crow_Sultana_SNR_FinalPDF.pdf

2.5 Mainstreaming Gender in Integrated Water Resources Management: Major Issues and Challenges

Authors: A. Hamdy , R. Quagliaeriello and G. Trisorio Liuzzi

Link: http://ressources.ciheam.org/om/pdf/a62/06002397.pdf

2.6 Gender Mainstreaming in Water Management: A Challenge to Sustainable Development

Authors: A. Hamdy and R. Quagliariello

Link: http://www.waterandgender.net/share/img_documents/44_hamdy_and_quagliariello.pdf

2.7 Gendered Participation in Water Management: Issues and Illustrations from Water Users' Associations in South Asia

Authors: Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Margreet Zwarteveen

Link: http://www.chs.ubc.ca/srilanka/PDFs/Gendered%20participation%20in%20water%20management.pdf

2.8 Mainstreaming Gender in Water Resources Management: Why and How

Author: WHO (World Health Organization).

Link: http://www.pacificwater.org/userfiles/file/IWRM/Toolboxes/gender/
MAINSTREAMING%20GENDER%20IN%20WATER%20RESOURCES.pdf

2.9 Balancing Pains and Gains: A Perspective Paper on Gender and Large Dams

Authors: Lyla Mehta and Bina Srinivasan

Link: http://www.ids.ac.uk/files/Pains_Gains.pdf

2.10 Gender, Domestic Water Supply and Hygiene

Authors: Gender and Water Alliance

Link: http://www.genderandwater.org/page/2791

2.11 Gender and Water: Securing Water for Improved Rural Livelihoods: The Multiple-Uses System Approach

Author: Robina Wahaj

Link: http://www.ifad.org/gender/thematic/water/gender_water.pdf

2.12 Gender Roles and Multiple Uses of Water in North Gujarat

Author: Bhawana Upadhyay

Link: http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/Publications/Working_Papers/working/WOR70.pdf


Module 3: Water and Equity



3. Water and Equity

Author: K. J. Joy

Link:  http://www.saciwaters.org/CB/iwrm/modules/Module3.pdf

3.1 Bio-Physical and Socio-Cultural Peculiarities of Water in an IWRM Context and its Relationship to Equity

Author: K. J. Joy

Link:  http://www.saciwaters.org/CB/iwrm/Lecture%20Notes/3.1.Bio-Physical%20and%20Socio
-Cultural%20Peculiarities%20of%20Water%20in%20an%20IWRM%20Context%20and
%20its%20relationship%20to%20equity_Joy%20K%20J.pdf

3.2 Equitable Water Distribution in the Context of IWRM: Conceptual Issues and Cases

Author: K.J.Joy

Link:  http://www.saciwaters.org/CB/iwrm/Lecture%20Notes/3.2.Equitable%20water%20
distribution%20in%20the%20context%20of%20IWRM_%20Coceptual%20issues%20and
%20cases_Joy%20K%20J.pdf

3.3 Integrated Water Resource Management: Incorporating Integration, Equity, and Efficiency to Achieve Sustainability

Author: Maria Placht

Link: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/68240775/Integrated-Water-Resource-Management--Incorporating-Integration

3.4 Water, Equity and Development

Author: Sanjiv J.Phansalkar

Link: http://irm.sagepub.com/content/3/1/1.full.pdf+html


Module 4: Economic and Financial Aspects of Integrated Water Resources Management



4. Economic and Financial Aspects of IWRM

Author: Hemasiri Kotagama

Link:  http://www.saciwaters.org/CB/iwrm/modules/Module4.pdf

4.1 Water as a Social and Economic Good: How to Put the Principle into Practice

Authors: Peter Rogers, Ramesh Bhatia and Annette Huber

Link: http://info.worldbank.org/etools/docs/library/80637/IWRM4_TEC02-WaterAs
SocialEconGood-Rogers.pdf

4.2 Financing & IWRM: Issues and Actions

Author: James Winpenny

Link: http://www.bvsde.paho.org/bvsacg/e/foro4/18marzo/financing/financing.pdf

4.3 Water as an Economic Good and Demand Management: Paradigms with Pitfalls

Authors: Hubert Savenije and Pieter van der Zaag

Link: http://webworld.unesco.org/Water/wwap/pccp/cd/pdf/educational_tools
/course_modules/reference_documents/water/waterasaneconomicgood.pdf

4.4 Why Water is Not An Ordinary Economic Good, or Why the Girl is Special

Author: Hubert H.G Savenije

Link: http://webworld.unesco.org/Water/wwap/pccp/cd/pdf/educational_tools/course_modules
/reference_documents/water/waterisnotanordinaryeconomicgood.pdf


Module 5: Water and Ecosystems



5. Water and Ecosystems

Author:E. J.James

Link:  http://www.saciwaters.org/CB/iwrm/modules/Module5.pdf

5.1 Relevance of Ecosystems in Integrated Water Resources Management

Authors:E. J.James

Link:  http://www.saciwaters.org/CB/iwrm/Lecture%20Notes/5.1.Relevance%20of%20Ecosystems%
20in%20Integrated%20Water%20Resources%20Management_James%20E%20J.pdf

5.2 Incorporating Ecosystem Perspective in River Basin Planning Illustrated by Case Studies on Wetland Ecosystems

Author: E. J.James

Link:  http://www.saciwaters.org/CB/iwrm/Lecture%20Notes/5.2.Incorporating%
20Ecosystem%20perspective%20in%20River%20Basin%20Planning_James%20E%20J.pdf

5.3 Water Management and Ecosystems: Living with Change

Author: Malin Falkenmark

Link: http://www.gwptoolbox.org/images/stories/gwplibrary/background/tec_9_english.pdf

5.4 Water Security and Ecosystem Services: The Critical Connection

Author: United Nations Environment Programme

Link: http://www.unep.org/themes/freshwater/pdf/the_critical_connection.pdf

5.5 Environmental Flows in Integrated Water Resources Management: Linking Flows, Services and Values

Author: Louise Korsgaard

Link: http://www.fiva.dk/doc/thesis/louise.pdf

5.6 Environmental Flows in Water Resources Policies, Plans, and Projects: Findings and Recommendations

Authors: Rafik Hirji and Richard Davis

Link: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWAT/Resources/Env_Flows_Water_v1.pdf


Module 6: Water Supply, Sanitation and Health



6. Water Supply, Sanitation and Health

Author: Anjal Prakash

Link:  http://www.saciwaters.org/CB/iwrm/modules/Module6.pdf

6.1 Safer Water, Better Health: Costs, Benefits and Sustainability of Interventions to Protect and Promote Health

Authors: Annette Prüss-Üstün, Robert Bos, Fiona Gore and Jamie Bartram

Link: http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2008/9789241596435_eng.pdf

6.2 Safe Water as the Key to Global Health

Authors: Corinne J.Schuster-Wallace, Velma I. Grover, Zafar Adeel, Ulisses Confalonieri and Susan Elliott

Link: http://www.inweh.unu.edu/documents/SafeWater_Web_version.pdf

6.3 The Water Poverty Index: An International Comparison

Authors:Peter Lawrence, Jeremy Meigh and Caroline Sullivan

Link: http://129.3.20.41/eps/dev/papers/0211/0211003.pdf

6.4 Effect of Irrigation and Large Dams on the Burden of Malaria on a Global and Regional Scale

Authors: Jennifer Keiser, Marcia Caldas De Castro, Michael F. Maltese, Robert Bos, Marcel Tanner, Burton H. Singer and Jurg Utzinger

Link: http://www.ajtmh.org/content/72/4/392.long

6.5 Water Quality in South Asia

Author: Stephen Luby

Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740663/

6.6 Water Recreation and Disease: Plausibility of Associated Infections: Acute Effects, Sequelae and Mortality

Author: Kathy Pond

Link: http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/bathing/recreadis.pdf

6.7 Impacts of Groundwater Contamination with Fluoride and Arsenic: Affliction Severity, Medical Cost and Wage Loss in Some Villages of India

Authors: Rajnarayan Indu, Sunderrajan Krishnan and Tushaar Shah

Link: http://irm.sagepub.com/content/3/1/69.full.pdf+html


Module 7: Sewage and Waste Water Management



7. Sewage and Waste Water Management

Author: Priyani Amarasinghe

Link:  http://www.saciwaters.org/CB/iwrm/modules/Module7.pdf

7.1 Needs Assessment Guidance to Develop National Plans for Domestic Wastewater Pollution Reduction

Author: UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme)

Link: http://www.cep.unep.org/pubs/Techreports/tr44/cep%20tr44-en.pdf

7.2 Sewage and Wastewater Treatment Plants

Author: Interior Office of Environmental Affairs

Link: http://www.p2pays.org/ref/07/06631.pdf

7.3 Sick Water? The Central Role of Wastewater Management in Sustainable Development

Authors: Emily Corcoran, Christian Nellemann, Elaine Baker, Robert Bos, David Osborn and Heidi Savelli

Link: http://www.unep.org/pdf/SickWater_screen.pdf

7.4 Status of Sewerage and Sewage Treatment Plants in Delhi

Author: Central Pollution Control Board

Link: http://www.cpcb.nic.in/newitems/13.pdf

7.5 Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage Options in Developing Countries: A Review of Current Implementation Practices

Authors: Daniele S. Lantagne, Robert Quick and Eric D. Mintz

Link: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/WaterStoriesHousehold.pdf

7.6 Evaluating Household Water Treatment Options: Health-Based Targets and Microbiological Performance Specifications

Author: WHO (World Health Organisation)

Link: http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/publications/2011/evaluating_water_treatment.pdf

7.7 Evaluation of Sanitation and Wastewater Treatment Technologies: Case Studies from India

Authors: M Starkl, M. Phansalkar, R. K. Srinivasan, E. Roma and T. A. Strenstrom

Link: http://www.indiawaterportal.org/sites/indiawaterportal.org/files/Evaluation%20of%
20sanitation%20and%20wastewater%20treatment%20technologies_Case%20studies%20from
%20India_%20Paper%20presented%20at%20National%20Sanitation%20Conference.pdf

7.8 Greywater Management in Low and Middle-Income Countries: Review of Different Treatment Systems for Households or Neighbourhoods

Authors: Antoine Morel and Stefan Diener

Link: hhttp://www2.gtz.de/Dokumente/oe44/ecosan/en-greywater-management-2006.pdf


Module 8: River Basin Planning and Management



8. River Basin Planning and Management

Author: N. K. Ambujam

Link:  http://www.saciwaters.org/CB/iwrm/modules/Module8.pdf

8.1 River Basin Management-I

Author: N. K. Ambujam

Link:  http://www.saciwaters.org/CB/iwrm/Lecture%20Notes/8.1.%20River%20Basin%20Management
%20I_Ambujam%20N.K.pdf

8.2 River Basin Management-II

Author: N.K. Ambujam

Link:  http://www.saciwaters.org/CB/iwrm/Lecture%20Notes/8.2.%20River%20Basin%20Management
%20II_%20Ambujam%20N%20K.pdf

8.3 Operationalizing IWRM through River Basin Planning and Management

Author: ERN Gunawardena

Link:  http://www.saciwaters.org/CB/iwrm/Lecture%20Notes/8.3.%20Restraining%20conflicst
%20through%20institutional%20interventions_Gunawardena%20ERN.pdf

8.4 Restraining Conflicts Through Institutional Interventions: The Case of Mahaweli, Sri Lanka

Authors: ERN Gunawardena and KN Wickramaratne

Link:  http://www.saciwaters.org/CB/iwrm/Lecture%20Notes/8.5.%20Operationalizing%20IWRM
%20through%20River%20Basin%20Planning%20and%20Management_Gunawardena%20ERN.pdf

8.5 A Handbook for Integrated Water Resources Management in Basins

Authors: GWP (Global Water Partnership) and INBO (International Network of Basin Organization)

Link: http://www.siagua.org/archivos_adjuntos/documentos/libro_gestion_cuencas.pdf


Module 9: Water Rights and Laws



9. Water Rights and Laws

Author: M.K. Ramesh

Link:  http://www.saciwaters.org/CB/iwrm/modules/Module9.pdf

9.1 Rethinking the Concept of the Human Right to Water

Author: Dinara Ziganshina

Link: http://www.internationalwaterlaw.org/bibliography/articles/Ethics/Common_Grounds_
Symposium/Ziganshina.pdf

9.2 FAQ: World Water Council

Author: World Water Council

Link: http://www.worldwatercouncil.org/index.php?id=1764

9.3 Water Rights Reform: Lessons for Institutional Design

Authors: Bryan Randolph Bruns, Claudia Ringler and Ruth Meinzen-Dick

Link: http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/oc49.pdf

9.4 The Helsinki Rules, the UN Watercourses Convention and the Berlin Rules: Perspectives on International Water Law

Author: Salman M. A Salman

Link: http://www.internationalwaterlaw.org/bibliography/articles/general/Salman-BerlinRules.pdf

9.5 Getting Transboundary Water Right: Theory and Practice for Effective Cooperation

Authors: A Jagerskog and M. Zeitoun

Link: http://www.siwi.org/documents/Resources/Reports/Report25_Transboundary_Waters_with
_WWW.pdf

9.6 Trans-Boundary Water Politics and Conflicts In South Asia: Towards 'Water for Peace'

Author: Richa Singh

Link: http://www.boell.de/downloads/intlpolitics/water._Final_1.pdf

9.7 From Communities’ Hands to MNCs’ BOOTs: A Case Study from India on Right to Water

Author: Ruchi Pant

Link: http://www.righttowater.info/wp-content/uploads/india_cs.pdf

9.8 India: Evolution of Water Law and Policy

Authors: Philippe Cullet and Joyeeta Gupta

Link: http://www.ielrc.org/content/a0901.pdf


Module 10: Water Policy, Regulations and Governance



10. Water Policy, Regulations and Governance

Author: Sachin Warghade

Link:  http://www.saciwaters.org/CB/iwrm/modules/Module10.pdf

10.1 The Empowers Approach to Water Governance: Guidelines, Methods and Tools

Authors: Patrick Moriarty, Charles Batchelor, Firas T. Abd-Alhadi, Peter Laban and Hazem Fahmy

Link: http://water.cedare.int/cedare.int/files15%5CFile2840.pdf

10.2 Good Governance for Good Water Management

Author: Julia Bucknall

Link: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTENVMAT/64199955-1162240805462/21127276/
8GoodGovernance.pdf

10.3 Independent Regulatory Agencies: A Theoretical Review With Reference to Electricity and Water in India

Authors: Navroz K. Dubash

Link: http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/Independent%20Regulatory%20Agencies.pdf

10.4 Uttar Pradesh Water Management and Regulatory Commission (UPWMRC) Act, 2008: Need for Civil Society Attention

Authors: Subodh Wagle and Sachin Warghade

Link: http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/UPWMRC.pdf

10.5 New Law Establishing Independent Regulatory Agencies in the Indian Water Sector: Long Term Implications for Governance

Authors: Subodh Wagle and Sachin Warghade

Link: http://www.sawasjournal.org/v2i1/SAWAS_2_1_Jun2010_Wagle_Warghade_p49_p78.pdf


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