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Water Alternatives
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ISSN 1965-0175 · Water Alternatives Association · 667 artikel di indeks
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Enhancing resilience or exacerbating inequity? Revisiting irrigation investments in India
There is an increasing emphasis in India on building climate resilience through public investments in irrigation. Maharashtra’s Project on Climate Resilient Agriculture is a first such state implementation. Although resilience is a systems concept, the project targets individual farm-level…
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Fluid legalities: Human-fish relations and water governance in Uzbekistan’s Zarafshan River Basin
This article explores water governance in Uzbekistan’s Zarafshan River Basin through a socio-legal analysis of human-fish relations. Building on scholarship that conceptualises fish as vessels embodying the biochemical, ideological, and economic forces of riverscapes, this article follows their…
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The river navigating urbanisation: From forest extraction to the new capital city development in East Kalimantan
This article analyses the historical trajectory of landscape transformation in Sepaku Subdistrict, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, in order to clarify the extensive impacts of Indonesia’s capital relocation project, officially framed as a 'forest city'. To do this, we specifically focus on the…
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Assemblage Insights into Groundwater Governance and Narratives of Groundwater 'Crisis' in Bandung Basin, Indonesia
Dwindling groundwater levels and compromised water quality have led to concerns about the potential for near- and longer-term groundwater crises in the Bandung Metropolitan Area (BMA), located in the Bandung Groundwater Basin of Indonesia. The BMA is a rapidly urbanising region where much of the…
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Is Collaborative Groundwater Governance Really Unfit for Purpose in Low- and Middle-Income Countries? Evidence from Morocco
Attempts to establish collaborative groundwater governance (CGG) have so far generally produced limited results in low- and middle-income countries. These shortcomings have been attributed to the high transaction costs associated with such approaches, making them impractical in informal water…
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Who should pay for water services and why? A typology of justifications for non-payment in eThekwini Municipal Area
Water is widely considered to be a basic need, a human right, a resource and a gift from nature, yet there are costs associated with providing it. As states seek to ensure access, controversies remain over water service type, ownership and funding. This paper traces debates over equity, access and…
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The people behind the machine: Street-level bureaucrats in the Bắc Hưng Hải irrigation system
This paper explores the everyday practices of street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) in Vietnam’s Bắc Hưng Hải (BHH) irrigation system, a vast hydrosocial machine in the Red River Delta. Drawing on interviews and detailed ethnographic fieldwork, we document how SLBs (hydraulic cluster managers, station…
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OECD’s Methods of Legitimation and Self-Authorisation in Water Governance
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has established itself since 2009 as an authority in water governance. This paper examines the strategies behind that emergence, applying quantitative and qualitative text analysis techniques to a corpus of 55 OECD documents produced…
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“What will happen to our commons?” Contesting discourses and the future of the wetlands in Guwahati, India
Urban wetlands are essential for sustaining biodiversity, mitigating floods and supporting livelihoods, yet they are among the planet’s most threatened ecosystems. In Guwahati, a rapidly urbanising capital city in Northeast India, wetlands are a critical urban commons. They are shared spaces…
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“With water we will wash away the past” - Vanishing promise of redressing water inequalities in post-Apartheid South Africa
Water issues in South Africa have been a subject of fascination for numerous scholars around the world. Its ground-breaking National Water Act 36 of 1998 (NWA), promulgated during the democratic political transition, was meant to introduce a complete overhaul of the water sector and ensure access…
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Water weaponisation and hydro-coercive negotiation: Rethinking hydropolitics, power, and interdependence in the Syrian conflict (2012-2020)
Between 2012 and 2020 in Syria, water was weaponised, but the manner of its weaponisation was constrained by the material and infrastructural characteristics of the country’s water system. Weaponisation took the form of infrastructure targeting, flow manipulation and access denial; at the same…
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Older women’s leisurely engagement with water: A ‘wetrospective’
Water is a vital but underexplored dimension of older women’s leisure. While aquatic activity is often framed through health promotion or 'active ageing' discourses, such framings can obscure the complex entanglements of embodiment, gender, environment and social life. This paper presents findings…
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Narratives of water disconnection: Navigating institutional tensions in the Netherlands
This article examines how Dutch water utilities implement and justify disconnection policies under the conflicting imperatives of cost recovery and the human right to water. Based on 12 semi-structured interviews and discourse analysis, it identifies 3 dominant narratives – technocratic, socially…
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Destabilising waters, uneven adaptation: Shifting hydrosocial relations among agropastoralists in the Tiva River Basin of Kenya
Seasonal rivers in East Africa’s drylands have become destabilised by climatic disruption and landscape changes. Despite widespread adaptation practices and interventions, recurrent droughts and floods continue to damage the agropastoral livelihoods dependent on these rivers. Few studies have…
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Feeding Istanbul: The Melen water transfer project and the anatomy of a silent environmental conflict
Istanbul is Turkey’s economic and cultural capital. With a population approaching 16 million, it uses resources, particularly water, from far beyond its borders. The city’s persistent water scarcity, exacerbated by its exponential growth, has necessitated large-scale infrastructural interventions…
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The reconfiguration of hydrosocial territories in rural Uzbekistan: Evidence from Samarkand Province
In recent years, Uzbekistan has embarked on an expansive agricultural modernisation programme, cast under the banner of the 'Green Economy'. Within the agriculture sector, this has entailed an overhaul of the former cotton-centred production model in favour of high-value crops and vertically…
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Institutional plasticity in river basin organizations: A review of 100 years of Spain’s Confederaciones Hidrográficas (1926-2026)
River basin organisations are frequently portrayed as technically grounded and politically neutral instruments of water governance, but this framing conceals the contested social and political processes through which they are constituted and transformed. This article reviews the hundred-year…
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Peri-urban water (in)security in India: A review
This paper provides a review of the literature on peri-urban water (in)security in India. Articles were selected using a mix of a Google Scholar search and snowball sampling. The literature is dominated by the experience of peri-urban water insecurity in a few large cities that grew in response to…
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Currents of water commons research: A review
Since Elinor Ostrom was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2009, research on the commons, and particularly on water commons, has expanded significantly in volume and theoretical diversity. This paper offers a scoping review of 61 'water commons' studies to identify theoretical strands and ways in which…
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Framing water through oil: How hydrocarbons shape water governance in Algeria
This study advances social science research on water by providing insights into the interplay between water and energy politics in Algeria, contributing to broader discussions on water governance in fossil-fueldependent nations. Using frame analysis, this research examines how water politics is…