Water Policy:

Volume 7 Number 6
December 2005

Contents

551

Empowering communities to carry out drought contingency planning

Jennifer L.Durley and Rob C. de Loë

569

Strategic planning for urban sanitation—a 21st century development priority?

Kevin Tayler and Jonathan Parkinson

581

Irrigators and the new policy paradigm – An Australian case study

Henning Bjornlund

597

Optimal extraction of groundwater for irrigation: synergies from surface water bodies in tropical India

B. S. Chaitra and M. G. Chandrakanth

613

Agricultural groundwater use in sub-Saharan Africa: What do we know and where should we go?

Mark Giordano

627

Water and sanitation policies for improving health in South Africa: overcoming the institutional legacy of apartheid

Edina Sinanovic, Sandi Mbatsha, Stephen Gundry, Jim Wright and Clas Rehnberg

643

Water management and food production in China and India: a comparative assessment

Ximing Cai and Mark W. Rosegrant