Volume 19 | Issue 1
Articles
OECD’s methods of legitimation and self-authorisation in water governance
Farhad Mukhtarov, Des Gasper, Michael Farrelly, Malte Lüken and Kody Moodley
Water Alternatives 19(1): 1-30 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
“With water we will wash away the past” - Vanishing promise of redressing water inequalities in post-Apartheid South Africa
Magalie Bourblanc
Water Alternatives 19(1): 31-49 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
“What will happen to our commons?” Contesting discourses and the future of the wetlands in Guwahati, India
Hilde Nijland, Sumit Vij and Jeroen Warner
Water Alternatives 19(1): 50-66 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Who should pay for water services and why? A typology of justifications for non-payment in eThekwini Municipal Area
Catherine Sutherland, Bahle Mazeka, Anthony Odili, Fanele Magwaza, Hayley Leck and Mary Lawhon
Water Alternatives 19(1): 67-85 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
The people behind the machine: Street-level bureaucrats in the Bắc Hưng Hải irrigation system
Léo Biré, Jean-Philippe Venot and Lý Ngọc Thùy Dương
Water Alternatives 19(1): 86-111 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Assemblage insights into groundwater governance and narratives of groundwater 'crisis' in Bandung Basin, Indonesia
Safira Salsabila, Elizabeth MacAfee, Arief D. Sutadian and Anindrya Nastiti
Water Alternatives 19(1): 112-136 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
The river navigating urbanisation: From forest extraction to the new capital city development in East Kalimantan
Vandy Yoga Swara, Kei Otsuki, Michelle Kooy and Femke van Noorloos
Water Alternatives 19(1): 137-157 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Fluid legalities: Human-fish relations and water governance in Uzbekistan’s Zarafshan River Basin
Frishta Qaderi
Water Alternatives 19(1): 158-179 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Enhancing resilience or exacerbating inequity? Revisiting irrigation investments in India
Pooja Prasad
Water Alternatives 19(1): 180-201 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Is collaborative groundwater governance really unfit for purpose in low- and middle-income countries? Evidence from Morocco
Nicolas Faysse, Zhour Bouzidi, Jean-Daniel Rinaudo, Zakia Kchikech, Yvan Caballero, Fatima Zahrae Boubekri and Abdelouahab Nejjari
Water Alternatives 19(1): 202-227 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Volume 19 | Issue 2
AWARE: Annual Water Alternatives Review
Currents of water commons research: A review
Sergio Villamayor-Tomas, Paulina Rainiecka and Jampel Dell’Angelo
Water Alternatives 19(2): 228-252 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Peri-urban water (in)security in India: A review
Vishal Narain
Water Alternatives 19(2): 253-270 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Institutional plasticity in river basin organizations: A review of 100 years of Spain’s Confederaciones Hidrográficas (1926-2026)
Carles Sanchis-Ibor, Leandro del Moral, Nuria Hernández-Mora and Lucia De Stefano
Water Alternatives 19(2): 271-314 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Articles
The reconfiguration of hydrosocial territories in rural Uzbekistan: Evidence from Samarkand Province
Madina Gazieva
Water Alternatives 19(2): 315-335 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Feeding Istanbul: The Melen water transfer project and the anatomy of a silent environmental conflict
Çisem Kirci and Cem Iskender Aydin
Water Alternatives 19(2): 336-361 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Destabilising waters, uneven adaptation: Shifting hydrosocial relations among agropastoralists in the Tiva River Basin of Kenya
Ruben V. Weesie, Melanie Rohse, Johanna Koehler, Marlies H. Barendrecht, Moses Mwangi and Anne F. van Loon
Water Alternatives 19(2): 362-392 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Narratives of water disconnection: Navigating institutional tensions in the Netherlands
Samara López-Ruiz, Klaas Schwartz and Gabriela Cuadrado-Quesada
Water Alternatives 19(2): 393-415 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Older women’s leisurely engagement with water: A ‘wetrospective’
Nicole K. Dalmer, Meridith Griffin, Vera Gallistl and Kim Sawchuk
Water Alternatives 19(2): 416-435 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Water weaponisation and hydro-coercive negotiation: Rethinking hydropolitics, power, and interdependence in the Syrian conflict (2012-2020)
Ahmed Haj Asaad, Elodie Feijoo Seara and Ieman Hajasaad
Water Alternatives 19(2): 436-456 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Volume 19 | Issue 3
October 2026
Articles
The geopolitics of water conflict and cooperation in the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin
Alexandra Turgul
Water Alternatives 19(3): 457-479 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Cycles of technopolitical transformation and (de)politicisation in water infrastructure: Insights from the Atatürk Dam
Aybike Alkan and Arda Bilgen
Water Alternatives 19(3): 480-501 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Community-based participatory research and indigenous knowledge: A pathway to climate-resilient and transformative water governance
Amanda Shankland, Carolyn Johns, Kelly Fran Davis, Kelsy Chan and Julia Baird
Water Alternatives 19(3): 502-525 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Why does Florida’s Aquifer continue to decline despite regulations aimed at preserving it: An institutional analysis and way forward
Douglas J. Merrey
Water Alternatives 19(3): 526-544 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Paradigmatic dimension of water access denial in Mumbai: Examining the ‘Water for All’ policy
Paroma Wagle
Water Alternatives 19(3): 545-566 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Forces at play – Hydrosocial infrastructuring and the making of the modern Rhine
Nils Mühlenbrock, Roger Häußling and Tim Franke
Water Alternatives 19(3): 567-591 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
The unique Brazilian model of water privatisation: An exploration of the processes shaping a financialised oligopoly
Gustavo do Amaral Loureiro, João Paulo Nicolini Gabriel, Bárbara Furtado Barra, Alex Moura de Souza Aguiar, Alex Loftus, Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos and Léo Heller
Water Alternatives 19(3): 592-620 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
New water for a thirsty land: Socio-material bricolage of treated wastewater irrigation on Gozo, Malta
Georges Gabriel, Luna Sylverans, Edoardo de Paola and Maarten Loopmans
Water Alternatives 19(3): 621-643 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
De- and re-infrastructuring the Rhone delta. Contesting ecological modernisation from below
Antoine Brochet and Joana Guerrin
Water Alternatives 19(3): 644-680 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Viewpoint − Water efficiency gains won’t resolve data centres’ contested future
Sameer H. Shah, Nicole J. Wilson and Cassandra L. Workman
Water Alternatives 19(3): 681-688 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Viewpoint − The case for reconciling water principles with treaty practices in crafting a comprehensive Nile River Basin treaty
Berhanu Abegaz
Water Alternatives 19(3): 689-698 Abstract | Full Text - PDF