Contested Waters: Sub-national Scale Water and Conflict in Pakistan

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Illustrations
	Figures
	Tables
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction: Contested waters in hydro-hazardscapes
	What is in the scale?
	Of expert visions, power and conflict
	Water conflict, in a hazardous world
	Pakistan as the most water scarce/vulnerable country, and what does it matter?
	How is this book organized
Chapter 2: Nationalist hazardscapes: The case of inter-provincial water conflict
	Historical antecedents of inter-provincial water conflict
	Politico-historic context of inter-provincial relations in Pakistan
	Agreements, allocations and royalties in inter-provincial water politics
	Kalabagh or death/death or Kalabagh: Competing narratives of inter-provincial water conflict in Pakistan
	Conclusion: Mitigating inter-provincial water conflict
Chapter 3: Local-scale water conflict over surface and groundwater in rural Pakistan
	The historico-institutional context of canal and Karez irrigation in Pakistan
	Pulling the local into global: Groundwater conflict in Balochistan
	Producing the local from national: Surface irrigation water conflict
	Conclusion and future pathways
Chapter 4: Contested hazards in local hazardscapes: From floods to pollution
	The historico-physical geography of floods in Pakistan
	Drainage as a hazard
	The fractal scalar politics in flood and drainage management in Pakistan
	Contrasting flood conflicts in Sindh and Punjab
	Downstream conflicts from pollution hazard
	Conclusion
Chapter 5: Conflict over domestic water supply: The case of Karachi
	Physical and institutional context of water supply in Karachi
	Privatization by other means: How it never did and can work for Karachi’s poor
	Have power? Have water
	Conclusion: Possible ways forward
Chapter 6: Conclusion
References
Index