Diverting the Flow: Gender Equity and Water in South Asia
Margreet Zwarteveen · Sara Ahmed · Suman Rimal Gautam
Mar 2014 · Zubaan
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412
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About this ebook
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.
Published by Zubaan.
Published by Zubaan.
About the author
Margreet Zwarteveen works as a researcher and lecturer at the Irrigation and Water Management Group of Wageningen University, the Netherlands.
Sara Ahmed is with the Canadian International Development Research Centre regional office in New Delhi.
Suman Rimal Gautam has more than 20 years of field-based experience, both as a practitioner in water resource development and management, as well as a policy researcher.
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