Diverting the Flow
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Diverting the Flow

Gender Equity and Water in South Asia

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Diverting the Flow

Gender Equity and Water in South Asia

About this book

Across the South Asian region, water determines livelihoods and in some cases even survival. However, water also creates exclusions. Access to water, and its social organisation, are intimately tied up with power relations. This book provides an overview of gender, equity and water issues relevant to South Asia. The essays empirically illustrate and theoretically argue how gender intersects with other axes of social difference such as class, caste, ethnicity, age and religion to shape water access, use and management practices. Divided into six thematic sections, each of which starts with an introduction of relevant concepts, debates and theories, the book looks at laws and rights, policies, technologies and intervention strategies. In all, the book clearly shows how understanding and changing the use, distribution and management of water is conditional upon understanding and accommodating gender relations.

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Yes, you can access Diverting the Flow by Margreet Zwarteveen,Sara Ahmed,Suman Rimal Gautam, Margreet Zwarteveen, Sara Ahmed, Suman Rimal Gautam in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Global Development Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. List of Tables and Figures
  6. List of Abbreviations
  7. Preface and Acknowledgements
  8. SECTION 1: UNDERSTANDING GENDER AND WATER LINKAGES
  9. 1. Gender and Water in South Asia: Revisiting Perspectives, Policies and Practice
  10. 2. Understanding Gendered Agency in Water Governance
  11. SECTION 2: GENDER, WATER LAWS AND POLICIES
  12. 3. Gender, Water Laws and Policies: An Introduction
  13. 4. Decentralising or Marginalising Women: Gender Relations and Sector Reforms in India
  14. 5. The Right to Water in Different Discourses
  15. 6. Water Rights and Gender Rights: The Sri Lanka Experience
  16. SECTION 3: GENDER, WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATION
  17. 7. Gender, Water Supply and Sanitation: An Introduction
  18. 8. Sanitation for the Urban Poor: Gender Matters
  19. 9. Reducing a Community's Water and Sanitation Burden: Insights from Maharashtra
  20. 10. Gendered Waters, Poisoned Wells: Political Ecology of the Arsenic Crisis in Bangladesh
  21. 11. Modern Water for Modern Women: Questioning the Relationship between Gender, Empowerment and Participation
  22. SECTION 4: GENDER, WATER AND AGRARIAN CHANGE
  23. 12. Gender, Water and Agrarian Change: An Introduction
  24. 13. Groundwater Vending and Appropriation of Women's Labour: Gender, Water Scarcity and Agrarian Change in a Gujarati Village, India
  25. 14. Highlighting the User in Waste Water Irrigation Research: Gender, Class and Caste Dynamics of Livelihoods near Hyderabad, India
  26. SECTION 5: GENDER AND WATER TECHNOLOGIES
  27. 15. Gender and Water Technologies: An Introduction
  28. 16. Farming Women and Irrigation Technology: Cases from Nepal
  29. 17. Gender and Water Technologies: Linking the Variables in Arsenic and Fluoride Mitigation
  30. 18. Perspectives on Gender and Large Dams
  31. 19. Large Water Control Mechanisms, and Women and Men: Gender Impacts of the Damodar Valley Corporation, India
  32. SECTION 6: STRATEGIES TO ADDRESS GENDERED WATER CONCERNS
  33. 20. Strategies to Address Gendered Water Concerns: An Introduction
  34. 21. Improving Processes of Natural Resources Management at the Grassroots: The Case of the Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA)
  35. 22. Thinking and Acting on Gender Issues: The Interface of Policy, Culture and Identity
  36. 23. Adopting a Gender Approach in a Water and Sanitation Project: Case of the 4WS Project in Coastal Communities in South Asia
  37. Glossary
  38. Notes on Contributors