SAWAS aims to provide space for creative and free thinking on water, fostering debate, eliciting innovative alternatives, promoting original analyses and constructive critiques.

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The articles, opinions and book reviews should be written preferably in English. Authors with English as a second language may choose to have their manuscripts professionally edited before submission to improve the English, as papers with poor expression will not be accepted.

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Chief Editor
Prof. Vishwa Ballabh



Managing Editor
Arpita De

Archives
Volume 1, Issue 2


Articles

  1. Adaptation to Climate Change Impacts and Regional Cooperation on Water and Hazards in the Himalayan Region
    Madhav B. Karki and Rameshananda Vaidya
    SAWAS 1 (2):116-131 

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  2. The Conception, Design, and Implementation of IMT in Pakistan’s Punjab: A Public Policy Reflection
    Mehmood Ul Hassan
    SAWAS 1 (2): 132-142

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  3. Gone Land, Gone Water : Crossing Fluid Boundaries in Periurban Gurgaon and Faridabad, India
    Vishal Narain
    SAWAS 1 (2): 143-158 

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  4. Water Use Conflict between Agriculture and Fisheries in a Selected Water Resources Development Project in Bangladesh
    Sonia Binte Murshed and M. Shah Alam Khan
    SAWAS 1 (2): 159-183 

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Book Reviews

  1. Integrated Water Resources Management: Global theory, Emerging Practice and Local Needs
    Eds. Peter P. Mollinga, Ajaya Dixit and Kusum Athukorala, Sage Publications, New Delhi, Thousand Oaks, London, 2006. pp 403 & 
    Droughts and Integrated Water Resource Management in South Asia: Issues, Alternatives and Futures
  2. Eds. Jasveen Jairath and Vishwa Ballabh, Sage Publications, 2008, pp xx+356
    'Discourses on IWRM'
    Ramaswamy R Iyer 
    SAWAS 1 (2): 184- 187 

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  3. Taming the Anarchy: Groundwater Governance in South Asia
    Tushaar Shah, Resources for the Future, Washington D.C, 2008. pp 302
    Linden Vincent 

    SAWAS 1(2): 188-192 

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Perspective

  1. Pluralized Water Policy Terrain = Sustainability and Integration 
    Dipak Gyawali
    SAWAS 1(2): 193-199 

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Volume 1, Issue 1

Editorial

  1. South Asia’s Water Resource Systems at the Crossroads
    Vishwa Ballabh
    SAWAS 1(1) : i-iii 

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Articles

  1. Water Rights in Farmer Managed Irrigation Systems in India: Equity, Rule Making,
    Hydraulic Property and the Ecology

    Peter P. Mollinga
    SAWAS 1 (1) : 1-18 

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  2. Methods of Valuation of Water Resources: A Review
    Nilanjan Ghosh and Jayanta Bandhopadhyaya
    SAWAS 1 (1) : 19-50

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  3. Urbanization and peri-urbanization: Aggressive competition and unresolved conflicts 
    The case of Chennai city in India

    S. Janakarajan
    SAWAS 1 (1) : 51-76 

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  4. Building an Advocacy Coalition for River Sand Mining Affected Stakeholders in Sri Lanka
    Kusum Athokorala
    SAWAS 1 (1) : 77-90 

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  5. Hydropower Development in Nepal: Enquiry into the Benefits of a Pluralistic Policy Terrain
    Ajaya Dixit
    SAWAS 1 (1) : 91- 105 

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Book Reviews

  1. Governance of Water –Institutional Alternatives and Political Economy
    (Ed. Vishwa Ballabh) 
  2. Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd., New Delhi, 2008
    V.S. Vyas
    SAWAS 1 (1) : 106- 109 

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  3. Towards Water Wisdom: Limits, Justice and Harmony
    Ramaswamy R Iyer
    Sage Publications, New Delhi. 2007
    Holding Alternate Vision, 
    Anjal Prakash
    SAWAS 1 (1) : 110-111 

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Perspective

  1. Putting Cultural Politics into Water Politics
    Amita Baviskar
    SAWAS 1(1) : 112-115 

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