1: Community-Based Water Law and Water Resources Management Reform in Developing Countries: Rationale, Contents and Key Messages 2: Understanding Legal Pluralism in Water and Land Rights: Lessons from Africa and Asia 3: Community Priorities for Water Rights: Some Conjectures on Assumptions, Principles and Programmes 4: Dispossession at the Interface of Community-Based Water Law and Permit Systems 5: Issues in Reforming Informal Water Economies of Low-Income Countries: Examples from India and Elsewhere 6: Legal Pluralism and the Politics of Inclusion, Recognition and Contestation of Local Water Rights in the Andes 7: Water Rights and Rules, and Management in Spate Irrigation Systems in Eritrea, Yemen and Pakistan 8: Local Institutions for Wetland Management in Ethiopia: Sustainability and State Intervention 9: Indigenous Systems of Conflict Resolution in Oromia, Ethiopia 10: Kenya's New Water Law: An Analysis of the Implications of Kenya's Water Act, 2002 for the Rural Poor 11: Coping with History and Hydrology: How Kenya's Settlement and Land Tenure Patterns Shape Contemporary Water Rights and Gender Relations in Water 12: Irrigation Management and Poverty Dynamics: Case Study of the Nyando Basin in Western Kenya 13: If Government Failed, How Are We to Succeed? The Importance of History and Context in Present-Day Irrigation Reform in Malawi 14: A Legal-Infrastructural Framework for Catchment Apportionment 15: Intersections of Law, Human Rights and Water Management in Zimbabwe: Implications for Rural Livelihoods.