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Understanding
Legal Pluralism in Water Rights: Lessons from Africa and Asia
Ruth Meinzen-Dick
and Leticia Nkonya
January
26, 2005
http://www.nri.org/waterlaw/AWLworkshop/papers.htm
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Water rights,
like the underlying resource itself, are fluid and changing; they
necessarily connect people; and they can derive from many sources.
As water rights are now receiving increasing attention from scholars
and policymakers in developing countries, it is useful to examine
the differences and similarities between land and water rights-as
well as the linkages between the two. Without an understanding of
the range and complexity of existing institutions that shape water
use, efforts to improve water allocations may be ineffective or
even have the opposite effects from those intended. Reforms need
to carefully consider the range of options available. This paper
reviews the multiple sources and types of water rights, the links
between land and water rights, using examples from Africa and Asia.
It then examines the implications for conflict and for water rights
reform processes.
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