Articles

Paradiplomacy and the Governors’ Forum: Rethinking transboundary water governance in the Lake Chad Basin
Ifeanyichukwu Azuka Aniyie and Ohiocheoya Omiunu
Water Alternatives 18(1): 1-18                      Abstract | Full Text - PDF

The Deep-Sea Discharge Project and the failure of environmental conservation in the Ergene Basin, Turkey
Semra Ocak and Ali Kerem Saysel
Water Alternatives 18(1): 19-41                    Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Rational and relational paradigms: A case study of the Indus Basin
Medha Bisht
Water Alternatives 18(1): 42-58                    Abstract | Full Text - PDF

From cooling water war to cooling towers: Transnational water diplomacy for the allocation of nuclear cooling on the Aare and Rhine Rivers, 1965-1972
Alicia Gutting
Water Alternatives 18(1): 59-85                    Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Fluid authorities: Exploring hydraulic social contracts in Nairobi’s water provision
Maja Dahl Jeppesen
Water Alternatives 18(1): 86-102                  Abstract | Full Text - PDF

The new tower of Babel: Divergent water quantification in the southwestern United States
Juan Camilo Perdomo Marín
Water Alternatives 18(1): 103-124                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Consequences for Maasai pastoralists of changing water access regimes in the Greater Amboseli ecosystem, Kenya
Arthur Bostvironnois, François Mialhe, Yanni Gunnell and Oldrich Navratil
Water Alternatives 18(1): 125-152                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

 

Viewpoints

Viewpoint – From shallow to transformative water justice
Benji Reade-Malagueño, Kieren Rudge, Sydney Moss and Paolo D’Odorico
Water Alternatives 18(1): 153-170                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

 

In Memoriam

Karen Bakker: Honouring a sharp mind, fierce intellect, thought pioneer, heart-led scientist and friend
Michelle Kooy, Leila M. Harris, Rutgerd Boelens, Tom Perreault and Erik Swyngedouw
Water Alternatives 18(1): 171-180                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

 

The editors of Water Alternatives would like to warmly acknowledge Karen Bakker's contribution to the establishment and growth of our journal and to critical water studies in general. An original and much cited author is no longer among us for inspiration and new ideas. She and her work will be remembered, in these pages as elsewhere.

 

AWARE: Annual Water Alternatives Review

The changing meaning of wild rivers: A review
Régis Barraud
Water Alternatives 18(2): 181-213                Abstract | Full Text - PDF 

Special Issue: Modelling Water Worlds
Guest Editors: Rossella Alba, Tobias Krueger, Lieke Melsen and Jean-Philippe Venot

This Special Issue was financially supported by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Modelling water worlds
Rossella Alba, Tobias Krueger, Lieke Melsen and Jean-Philippe Venot
Water Alternatives 18(2): 214-239                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Water models as geographical chimera: Precipitation interception routines as an example of “patchwork empiricism”
John T. Van Stan and Jack Simmons
Water Alternatives 18(2): 240-260                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Predicting floods to protect property regimes: Situating flood modelling in the River Poddle Catchment, Dublin
Laure de Tymowski and Elliot Hurst
Water Alternatives 18(2): 261-288                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Assembling, channeling, and orienting watershed management: The performative roles of computer models in environmental management institutions
Jeremy Trombley
Water Alternatives 18(2): 289-304                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

A politics of global datasets and models in flood risk management
Joshua Cohen, Anna Mdee, Mark A. Trigg, Shivani Singhal, Sarah Cooper, Abel Negussie Alemu, Eden Seifu, Cindy Lee Ik Sing, Mark V. Bernhofen, Ajay Bhave, Andrew Carr, C.T. Dhanya, Alemseged Tamiru Haile, Leonairo Pencue-Fierro, Zulfaqar Sa'adi, Prabhakar Shukla, Yady Tatiana Solano-Correa, Jaime Amezaga, Shambhavi Gupta, Ashok Kumar, Adey Nigatu Mersha, Zainura Zainon Noor, Alesia Ofori and Tilaye Worku Bekele
Water Alternatives 18(2): 305-329                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Modelling as intervention technology: Science, politics, and water conflicts
Ehsan Nabavi
Water Alternatives 18(2): 330-354                Abstract | Full Text - PDF 

Articles

Rupture and its temporalities at Indonesia’s Jatigede Dam
Brooke Wilmsen, Ardhitya Eduard Yeremia, Sarah Rogers and Suraya Abdulwahab Afiff
Water Alternatives 18(2): 355-373                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

A colonial discourse on 'urban water': A case study of Hesaraghatta Waterworks in Bangalore
Akash Jash
Water Alternatives 18(2): 374-393                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Shrimp economies and hydrosocial lives in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta
Yu-Kai Liao
Water Alternatives 18(2): 394-418                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Citizen intercession towards safeguarding the Vishwamitri River, India
Neha Sarwate and Shishir R. Raval
Water Alternatives 18(2): 419-439                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

In pursuit of water policy nirvana: Examining the role of catchment groups in Aotearoa New Zealand
Edward Challies, Marc Tadaki, Jim Sinner, Margaret Kilvington, Paratene Tane, Christina Robb, David Diprose, Phillip Fluerty, Rio Greening, Lee Mason, Brent Paterson, Marty Robinson and Michael Shearer
Water Alternatives 18(2): 440-461                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Social relations of water access among the poor in urban Malawi
Andy Kusi-Appiah and Paul Mkandawire
Water Alternatives 18(2): 461-476                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Articles

Working class water justice: Salvadoran sindicalistas and the fight for a ‘just and dignified life’
Claudia Díaz-Combs
Water Alternatives 18(3): 477-498                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Exploring the diverse motivations of volunteer water management committees in rural Malawi
Ian Cunningham, Juliet Willetts, Tim Foster and Keren Winterford
Water Alternatives 18(3): 499-520                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Mekong River dry season changes due to hydropower dams and extractive processes: Making sense of contradictory community observations in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia
Ian G. Baird. Michael Thorne and Sirasak Gaja-Svasti
Water Alternatives 18(3): 521-545                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

User acceptance of digital groundwater technologies: A data governance perspective
Tanya Baycheva-Merger, Jakob Kramer, Kerstin Stahl and Sylvia Kruse
Water Alternatives 18(3): 546-563                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Water infrastructures and local power in peripheral urbanisation: New insights from urban political ecology in São Paulo
Tade Rücker and Rainer Wehrhahn
Water Alternatives 18(3): 564-578                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Unravelling socio-material complexities in river connectivity restoration: Understanding fishways as heterogeneous networks
Panos Panagiotopoulos, Anthonie D. Buijse, Luc Roozendaal, Hendrik V. Winter, Leopold A.J. Nagelkerke and Annet P. Pauwelussen
Water Alternatives 18(3): 579-601                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

How representatives of community-based water organisations navigate gaps in Colombia’s national drinking water co-production strategy
Katharina Lindt and Bibiana Royero Benavides
Water Alternatives 18(3): 602-617                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Framing water through oil: How hydrocarbons shape water governance in Algeria
Selma Benyovszky
Water Alternatives 18(3): 618-645                Abstract | Full Text - PDF