List of Illustrations and Tables

1. Introduction

Barbara Rose Johnston

John M. Donahue

PART I Rights and Resources Water, Development, and Cultural Survival

2. The Use and Abuse of Aquifers: Can the Hopi Indians Survive Multinational Mining?

Peter Whiteley

Vernon Masayesva

3. Water Rights in the Pacific Northwest

Tom Greaves

4. "A River That Was Once So Strong and Deep": Local Reflections on the Eastmain Diversion, James Bay Hydroelectric Project

Kreg Ettenger

5. Balancing the Waters: Development and Hydropolitics in Contemporary Zimbabwe

Bill Derman

6. Water, Rights, and the El Cajon Dam, Honduras

William M. Loker

PART II Project Culture and Hydropolitics The Making and Unmaking of Water Development Projects

7. Water Resource Development and Its Effects on the Human Community: The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, South-eastern United States

Claudia M. Rogers

8. Transacting a Commons: The Lake Biwa Comprehensive Development Plan, Shiga Prefecture, Japan

James E. Nickum

Daniel Greenstadt

9. The Big Canal: The Political Ecology of the Central Arizona Project

Thomas E. Sheridan

10. Water Wars in South Texas: Managing the Edwards Aquifer

John M. Donahue

11. Gender and Society in Bangladesh's Flood Action Plan

Suzanne Hanchett

Jesmin Akhter

Kazi Rozana Akhter

PART III The Culture and Power Dimensions of Water Scarcity

12. A Reversal of Tides: Drinking Water Quality in Oaxaca de Juarez, Mexico

M. Brian Riley

Arthur D. Murphy

Miguel Angel Mendez Rosado

13. Water, Power, and Environmental Health in Tourism Development: The Bay Islands, Honduras

Susan C. Stonich

Jerrel H. Sorensen

Gus W. Salbador

14. Culture, Power, and the Hydrological Cycle: Creating and Responding to Water Scarcity on St. Thomas, Virgin Islands

Barbara Rose Johnston

15. Water Between Arabs and Israelis: Researching Twice-Promised Resources

Rosina Hassoun

16. Conclusion

John M. Donahue

Barbara Rose Johnston

References

Contributors

Index