The Water Revolution: Practical Solutions to Water Scarcity

Edited by Kendra Okonski

Published March 2006 by International Policy Press

Contributors include:

• Professor Douglas Southgate (Ohio State University)
• Professor Eugenio Figueroa (University of Chile)
• Professor Andrew Morriss (Case School of Law, Ohio),
• Professor Wang Xinbo (Capital University of Economy and Business, Beijing)
• Emeritus Professor Colin Robinson (University of Surrey, UK)
• policy analyst Dr. Indur M. Goklany (USA)
• Ambrish Mehta (Arch-Vahini, India)
• Laveesh Bhandari and Aarti Khare (Indicus Analytics, India)
• Franklin Cudjoe (Imani, Ghana)
• Kendra Okonski (editor; Environment Programme Director, IPN, London)

Forewords by Sir Ian Byatt (former regulator, OFWAT, UK) and Hernando de Soto (author of The Mystery of Capital).

Chapters available online:

• Chapter 1:
  
  Indur Goklany
  
  Comparing 20th-century trends in US and global agricultural water and land use
  
   
• Chapter 2:
  
  Andrew Morriss
  
  Incentives matter: The case for market valuation of water
  
   
• Chapter 3:
  
  Douglas Southgate and Eugenio Figueroa
  
  Reforming water policies in Latin America: Some lessons from Chile and Ecuador
  
   
• Chapter 4:
  
  Laveesh Bhandari and Aarti Khare
  
  Poor provision of household water in India: How entrepreneurs respond to artificial scarcity
  
   
• Chapter 5:
  
  Ambrish Mehta
  
  The rain catchers of Saurashtra, Gujarat
  
   
• Chapter 6:
  
  Wang Xinbo
  
  Water governance in China: The failure of a top-down approach
  
   
• Chapter 7:
  
  Kendra Okonski and Franklin Cudjoe
  
  The reality of water provision in urban Africa
  
   
• Chapter 8:
  
  Colin Robinson
  
  How not to reorganise an industry: Privatisation, liberalisation and Scottish water