Yukihiro Mizutani, Nippon Koei Co., Ltd., Water Engineering Departent, mizutani-yk@n-koei.jp
Abstract:
This paper illustrates the institutional capital stock required for the developing economies by analyzing effectively the objectives of human rights and basic tree elements of water resources management. Issues of human rights to water are to realign the riparian water rights of land owners to the public right for reasonable and equitable allocation of water, to indemnify the human right of equality of opportunity to access to safe water and to indemnify the regional equity to re-allocate water resources not equally distributed geographically. The three elements of water resources management are securing safe water supply to various uses, securing water quality for sanitation and ecology, and securing safety against flood. This paper clarifies in details the missing institutional capital between the developed and developing economies which should be filled with. It also suggests that development of the extensive institutional capital stock for water resources management should come first before the Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) approach in the developing economies. International donor communities will be required to provide their extensive technical and financial support consistently to develop sufficient institutional capital stock.
Key words: institutional capital stock, equality rights, water security