@article{fdi:010053570,
  title = {{B}eyond water, beyond boundaries : spaces of water management in the {K}rishna river basin, {S}outh {I}ndia},
  author = {{V}enot, {J}. {P}. and {B}harati, {L}. and {G}iordano, {M}. and {M}olle, {F}ran{\c{c}}ois},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{A}s demand and competition for water resources increase, the river basin has become the primary unit for water management and planning. {W}hile appealing in principle, practical implementation of river basin management and allocation has often been problematic. {T}his paper examines the case of the {K}rishna basin in {S}outh {I}ndia. {I}t highlights that conflicts over basin water are embedded in a broad reality of planning and development where multiple scales of decisionmaking and non-water issues are at play. {W}hile this defines the river basin as a disputed 'space of dependence', the river basin has yet to acquire a social reality. {I}t is not yet a 'space of engagement' in and for which multiple actors take actions. {T}his explains the endurance of an interstate dispute over the sharing of the {K}rishna waters and sets limits to what can be achieved through further basin water allocation and adjudication mechanisms - tribunals - that are too narrowly defined. {T}here is a need to extend the domain of negotiation from that of a single river basin to multiple scales and to non-water sectors. {I}nstitutional arrangements for basin management need to internalise the political spaces of the {I}ndian polity: the states and the panchayats. {T}his re-scaling process is more likely to shape the river basin as a space of engagement in which partial agreements can be iteratively renegotiated, and constitute a promising alternative to the current interstate stalemate.},
  keywords = {{K}rishna - {I}ndia ; river basin management ; allocation ; politics ; scale},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{G}eographical {J}ournal},
  volume = {177},
  numero = {{P}art 2},
  pages = {160--170},
  ISSN = {0016-7398},
  year = {2011},
  DOI = {10.1111/j.1475-4959.2010.00384.x},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010053570},
}