The United Nations 2006 human development report states that water markets have not been shown to protect the interests of the poor, while other research has found that water markets have benefited smaller, resource-constrained farmers. This article provides insight into this international development debate by analyzing the impact of water markets on small farmers in the Limarí River Basin of Chile. The analysis is based on data collected from an extensive in-person survey of 316 farmers in the basin.

For over 10 years, several species of salmon have been identified as either threatened or endangered in the Snake River Basin of Idaho. The United States Bureau of Reclamation, in cooperation with the National Marine Fisheries Service, has proposed a variety of plans to increase stream flows in the Snake River Basin to facilitate movement by juvenile salmon smolts to the ocean.

The paper looks at the institutional and policy reforms in the context of sources and uses of water. Although the reform measures have been specific about surface water, there still is ambiguity on the groundwater situation in India. The reforms have failed to de-link the conventional linkages between right to land and right to (ground) water. Most policy reforms have been in response to the emerging crisis of water allocation, use and management.

In many countries around the world, increasing attention is being directed to the need to improve water rights systems. This paper is based on a recent study undertaken to investigate challenges facing optimal implementation of formal water rights systems for irrigation purposes in the Great Ruaha River Catchment in Tanzania. The study integrated social survey, hydrologic, water abstraction and water use data, and Geographical Information System techniques.

When water entitlement and water sharing systems are mis-specified, that is specified in amanner that lacks hydrological integrity, inefficient investment and water use is the result.Using Australia's Murray Darling Basin as an example, this paper attempts to reveal theeconomic consequences of entitlement mis-specification.

Al enfoque de gestión integral del agua están asociados distintos tipos de restricciones como las económicas e institucionales. Esta tesis se centra en el análisis de las restricciones institucionales que se enfrentan para la creación y diseño de los Bancos de Agua, pues esto determinará su contribución no sólo para enfrentar el problema de escasez sino también la sobreexplotación del recurso.

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Many questions about customary legal developments go unexplained if no recourse is made to the connection between legal and economic systems. Since time immemorial they interact, justify and fertilise each other. Most of all, if we believe that customary laws and justice develop and transform themselves, the question is: how much does economic development influence legal institutions and rules?

El documento es la propuesta de Ley que la CONAIE en representación de las 14 nacionalidades y 18 pueblos agrupados en las tres grandes regionales: ECUARUNARI (Ecuador Runacunapak Rikcharimui - Confederación Kichwa del Ecuador), CONAICE (Confederación de las Nacionalidades Indígenas de la Costa Ecuatoriana) y CONFENIAE (Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas de la Amazonía Ecuatoriana) pone a consideración del pueblo ecuatoriano para su discusión.