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.

Newcomers who seek to redefine the multilateral global water agenda: what is their legitimacy?

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More regulation can’t fix the failures of privatised water in England and Wales

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Models do not think

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Can the tide be turned?

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How the UN got thirsty again after 46 years

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

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

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

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Moving beyond ‘sustainable hydropower’ in the Mekong basin

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Do we really understand water inequities in the USA?

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

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Can nexus avoid the fate of IWRM?

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

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State capture’s impact on South African water sector reform

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

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