Articles


Paradiplomacy and the Governors’ Forum: Rethinking transboundary water governance in the Lake Chad Basin

Ifeanyichukwu Azuka Aniyie and Ohiocheoya Omiunu

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

18(1): 19-41                    Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Rational and relational paradigms: A case study of the Indus Basin
Medha Bisht

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

18(1): 59-85                    Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Fluid authorities: Exploring hydraulic social contracts in Nairobi’s water provision
Maja Dahl Jeppesen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

18(2): 305-329                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Modelling as intervention technology: Science, politics, and water conflicts
Ehsan Nabavi

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

18(2): 355-373                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

A colonial discourse on 'urban water': A case study of Hesaraghatta Waterworks in Bangalore
Akash Jash

18(2): 374-393                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Shrimp economies and hydrosocial lives in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta
Yu-Kai Liao

18(2): 394-418                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Citizen intercession towards safeguarding the Vishwamitri River, India
Neha Sarwate and Shishir R. Raval

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

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

18(2): 461-476                Abstract | Full Text - PDF