The Water Dissensus – A Water Alternatives Forum

"How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?" (Edward Abbey) This Forum is intended to provide space for critical debates and discussions about water issues. Existing dissensus, or antagonistic values and points of view, can be turned into a learning opportunity for the benefit of all and give way to reasoned debates that have the potential both to further understanding of complex water issues and to generate new ideas.
Barbara Schreiner

What is ‘equitable access to water’?

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Tarlock, Dan

How long can Old Prior appropriation water rights survive in a climate-stressed, urban American West?

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Bernard Barraqué

Increasing block tariffs: It could have been a good idea

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Chris Seijger

More food, but less land and water for nature: unforeseen and substantial global increase in land and water usage

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Bruce Lankford

Irrigation is more than irrigating: Adding blue water to green water is not that simple

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Kris Hartley

Dry humor: aquathoritarian cities pretend to be water-smart

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Grace Harmon

Farmer-led irrigation development in sub-Saharan Africa: A policy paradox?

Farmer-led irrigation development in sub-Saharan Africa: A policy paradox?

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Suraya Scheba

South African “Free Basic Water” policy: from progressive to regressive agenda?

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Hosna J. Shewly

Blame it on climate change

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Neha Khandekar

What will it take to decolonize water science, policy, and practice?

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Chris Perry

Can the tide be turned?

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Lyla Mehta

How the UN got thirsty again after 46 years

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Linda Mendez-Barrientos

California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA): too little, too late and too slow?

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Nancy McCarthy

Designed to fail: Many irrigation schemes in sub-Saharan Africa are neither fit nor fit for purpose

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Insaf Mekki

Solar energy for groundwater pumping in Kebili Region (Tunisia) and beyond: the challenges ahead

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Carl Middleton

Moving beyond ‘sustainable hydropower’ in the Mekong basin

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Vishal Narain

Wading across the frontiers: a new paradigm for peri-urban water security ?

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Andrea Gerlak

Do we really understand water inequities in the USA?

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Shilp Verma

Can SPaRC fix India’s perverse energy incentives and save aquifers?

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Karim Eid-Sabbagh

Treating wastewater for agricultural use is desirable, but the devil is in the details

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Jeroen Vos

Ecological flows are exclusionary, technocratic and top-down practices ... (but could be empowering)

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Dipak Gyawali

Can nexus avoid the fate of IWRM?

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Jude Cobbing

Groundwater shortage or crisis narratives are restricting development in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Vijay Kolinjivadi

Conditionality as dispossession? The socio-cultural injustice of “payments for ecosystem services” (PES)

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Douglas Merrey

Large scale irrigation investments in sub-Saharan Africa: Is big beautiful?

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Christian Lévêque

What does ‘restoring’ rivers mean? 'eco-centric' vs 'human-centric' restoration

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David McDonald

Covid-19: Disaster capitalism or an opportunity to strengthen public water?

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François Molle

Agricultural water demand management: is the glass 20% full or 80% empty?

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Richard Meissner

State capture’s impact on South African water sector reform

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Shaminder Puri

I say ’aquifer’ and she says ‘groundwater’ … Let’s call the whole thing off… (with apologies to Ella Fitzgerald & Satchmo)

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Ana Elisa Cascão

What is going on in the Nile has little to do with water…

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Gabrielle Bouleau

Water supply and sanitation: the end of networks?

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Maria Rusca

SDG-6: Useful, but what about transformative change?

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