Community-Based Water Law and Water Resource Management R...
van Koppen, B / Giordano, Mark (International Water Management Institute, Sri Lanka) / Butterworth, J (IRC International Water and Sanitation Center, The Netherlands) / Butterworth, J (IRC International Water and Sanitation Center, The Netherlands)
The lack of sufficient access to clean water is a common problem faced by communities, efforts to alleviate poverty and gender inequality and improve economic growth in developing countries. While reforms have been implemented to manage water resources, these have taken little notice of how people use and manage their water and have had limited effect at the ground level. On the other hand, regulations developed within communities are liveliho...