This new publication, edited by Bryan Randolph Bruns, Claudia Ringler, and Ruth Meinzen-Dick discusses water rights on two fronts: contents and opportunity. The contents clearly illustrate the usefulness of different water allocation tools, from administrative allocation to markets, provided that the tools fit their environment, are properly evaluated, and are not ideologically approached. The book is opportune because the need to legally recognize customary and informal water rights is now pressing.

This book can be ordered online or downloaded free of charge from the International Food Policy Research Institute web site at: http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/pubs.htm#books