Subject(s): Human rights -- Water in Law and legislation. -- Water law, policy and institutional reforms in India -- Water reforms in western India, Neoliberal water reforms in Chennai -- Ongoing irrigation and ground water reforms in India : Canal irrigation, water user associations and law in India-emerging trends in right-based perspective, Customary rights and their relevance in modern tank management in Tamil Nadu, Ground water-legal aspects of the Plachimada dipute (coca cola company in Kerala, Palakkad) -- Perspectives on privatisation : Tripur water supply and sanitation projects: revolution in water resource management , World Bank's influence on water privatisation in Argentina, Linkages between access to water and water scarcity with international investment law and WTO regime , Water institutions and reallocation in Andhra Pradesh -- Environment and human rights : balancing development and environmental conservation and environmental conservation and protection of the water resource base- Greening of water laws, Does cooperative governance offer a way out of a conflict of interests and legal complexity -- South Africa's water law and policy framework, Implementation of the Human right to water in south Africa -- Comparative perspective on reforms : Water law reforms in Australis, law and development discourses about water- Understanding agency in regime changes , Marginal remarks concerning water policy regimes-Governance, right, Justice and development