part I Introduction
1. The human right to water and sanitation in a legal pluralist landscape : perspectives of southern and eastern African women / Anne Hellum, Patricia Kameri-Mbote and Barbara van Koppen
2. Turning the tide : engendering the human right to water and sanitation / Anne Hellum, Ingunn Ikdahl and Patricia Kameri-Mbote
part II. Kenya
3. Human rights, gender and water in Kenya : law, prospects and challenges / Patricia Kameri-Mbote and Francis Kariuki
4. Not so Rosy : Farm Workers' Right to Water in the Lake Naivasha Basin / Patricia Kameri-Mbote and Edna Odhiambo
5. Watered down : gender and the human right to water and reasonable sanitation in Mathare, Nairobi / Celestine Nyamu Musembi
6. Gender dimensions of customary water resource governance : Marakwet case study / Elizabeth Gachenga
part III. Malawi
7. The political economy of the human right to water and women in Malawi / Ngeyi Ruth Kanyongolo, Asiyati Lorraine Chiweza, Michael Chasukwa and Timothy Chirwa
8. Women's right to water and participation in practice : insights from urban local water governance systems / Asiyati Lorraine Chiweza, Ngeyi Ruth Kanyongolo, Michael Chasukwa and Timothy Chirwa
9. Primary actors on the back seat : gender, human rights and rural water governance in Malawi : lessons from Mpemba and Chileka / Michael Chasukwa, Ngeyi Ruth Kanyongolo, Asiyati Lorraine Chiweza and Timothy Chirwa
part IV. Zimbabwe
10. Governance, gender equality and the right to water and sanitation in Zimbabwe : contested norms and institutions in an unstable economic and political terrain / Anne Hellum, Bill Derman, Ellen Sithole and Elizabeth Rutsate
11. Zimbabwe's urban water crisis and its implications for different women : emerging norms and practices in Harare's high density suburbs / Anne Hellum, Ellen Sithole, Bill Derman, Lindiwe Mangwanya and Elizabeth Rutsate
12. Securing rural women's land and water rights : lessons from Domboshawa communal land / Anne Hellum, Bill Derman, Lindiwe Mangwanya and Elizabeth Rutsate
13. A hidden presence : women farm workers right to water and sanitation in the aftermath of the fast track land reform / Elizabeth Rutsate, Bill Derman and Anne Hellum
part V. South Africa
14. Fixing the leaks in women's human rights to water : lessons from South Africa / Barbara van Koppen, Bill Derman, Barbara Schreiner, Ebenezer Durojaye, and Ngcime Mweso
15. Gender-equality in statutory water law : the case of priority general authorizations in South Africa / Barbara van Koppen and Barbara Schreiner
16. Gender, rights, and the politics of productivity : the case of the Flag Boshielo irrigation scheme, South Africa / Barbara van Koppen, Barbara Tapela, and Everisto Mapedza
Appendix 1. International legal documents
Appendix 2. National legislation and cases.