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For the longest time, sanitation received little attention from Indian policymakers and lawyers. However, the past couple of decades have witnessed a significant change in the manner in which sanitation is viewed in the country.
While there is growing interest in the policy perspectives on sanitation, the emphasis on its legal dimensions has lagged behind. The piecemeal nature of the existing legal instruments and the lack of awareness about them have further ...
Despite the obvious importance of water, there is hardly any comprehensive work on the laws governing the use of water in India. Though a number of legal instruments related to water exist, both at the union and at the state levels, they are extremely complex and multi-layered. This volume provides a broad picture of the current and emerging policy framework for managing water-related issues by bringing together the key policy documents as well as laws on water. ...
Water Governance in Motion: Towards Socially and Environmentally Sustainable Water Laws focuses on the work undertaken by International Environmental Law Research Centre IELRC on water law reforms in India. It seeks to provide a broader understanding of the conceptual framework informing existing water law and ongoing reforms.The book is divided into two parts. The first part critically analyses the context of international law for water reforms and the second ...