Legal and extra legal channels for the redress of historical injustice

Introduction Amongst the principal challenges confronting improved access to water for historically disadvantaged social groups is water scarcity resulting from entrenched inequitable patterns of water use. This challenge is compounded by the complex nature of property rights over water, essentially a ‘common-pool’ resource, the use of which tends to be governed by a mix of formal laws, customary rights and constantly evolving informal practices. This paper draws from case studies in India an..