Constraints on enforcement of water policies: selected cases from South Asia

摘要

To be effective, water policies should acknowledge the implications of the interrelationship of capital, labour and technology, and address the trade-offs between the environmental imperatives and socioeconomic exigencies of consumers. Approaches toenforcement of water policies may be sanctionbased or compliance based. This paper identifies cases in Pakistan and India in which disharmony and complexity of policies, largely due to policy-makers' oversight or unwillingness, resulted in poor enforcement. The paper also evaluates an alternative water pricing policy, crop-independent water prices for culturable command areas for irrigated areas in Pakistan.