Subject(s): water resourses -- waterquality -- Urban and local water politics -- Pipe-bound city in time and space: applying GIS to the historical development of two cities -- Inequalities in urban water supply in India- municipalities in Andhra Pradesh -- Social movements and conflict over water in mexico -- Inequality and social exclusion- access of drinking water in Bolivia -- National water politics -- Wittfogel and hydraulic despotism, Reshaping the political- Nile waters of the Sudan -- Water resource administration and racial inequality in Africa, British colonial water legislation in Mandatory Palestine -- Retreat from centralised water management in Israeli, market oriented sustainable water resource, Water and transformation of agriculture in Bulgaria, Irrigation and state formation in Ancient Korea, Water and development in Cambodia, Gender, poverty and water in Pakistan -- International hydropolitics -- Nile as a legal and political structure, Nile basin co-operation , Transboundary water resource : Mexico, the USA and the 1944 water treaty -- Developing Lesotho's water resource, Great lakes fisheries: international response to their decline and the lamprey/alewife invasion -- Energy and environmental security, Salmon, science and society on the Fraser river -- Water law and legal issues -- Water quality as property: industrial water pollution and riparian law in 19th century USA -- Regimes, regulations and rights: urban water use in the kathmandu valley -- Water as property in American west , Changing water rights in Mexico: local availability and the reallocation of Groundwater rights -- My land, my water, your problem : co-dynamic processes and the development of appropriate water policy tools