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Water Alternatives is an interdisciplinary journal addressing the full range of social and political issues that water raises in contemporary societies.
Political ecology, water governance, water policy
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Así son los nuevos SMR que algunos prometen.
"Probablemente la peor solicitud que jamás haya tenido la Comisión Reguladora Nuclear (NRC)"
"Todos estos Nuke-Bros no tienen ni idea de operar un reactor. Solo quieren un pase gratis"
"Errores básicos" e "Incompetencia"
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November 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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ianjames.bsky.social
"Japan is exporting its fossil agenda." Protesters in Pokemon costumes stomped around the U.N. climate conference to send a message to Japan: end financing of coal and natural gas projects.

By Anton L. Delgado @apnews.com apnews.com/article/japa...
Protesters in Pikachu costumes demand Japan end fossil fuel financing at UN climate conference
Protesters in Pokemon costumes stomped around the United Nations climate conference Friday to send Japan a message: end financing of coal and natural gas projects across Southeast Asia and elsewhere.
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November 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Blue Church Water Flow Diagram
The Reformed Church of Zurich, Switzerland, has developed a water flow diagram transparently showing where the water comes from and where it flows to for protecting water as a vital resource.
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November 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM
waalternatives.bsky.social
New post at the 'Water Dissensus Forum'
titled 'Water-related misconceptions – why do they still exist and why does that matter?'
and proposed by Jan Seibert and Ilja van Meerveld.

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November 15, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Check out David Zetland's review of “Replumbing the City: Water Management as Climate Adaptation in Los Angeles”, by Sayd Randle, Water Alternatives,
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Replumbing the city: Water management as climate adaptation in Los Angeles (Randle, 2025)
David Zetland Randle, S. (2025). Replumbing the city: Water management as climate adaptation in Los Angeles. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520394056 (paper back, US$30)/ ISBN 9780520394049 ...
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November 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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The little-known groundwater Los Angeles pumps in the Owens Valley, and the tribes who want it back

“I want to see the water flowing again.” @carlinstiehl.bsky.social @latimes.com www.latimes.com/environment/...
The little-known groundwater Los Angeles pumps in the Owens Valley, and the tribes who want it back
In the Owens Valley, Los Angeles siphons water from Sierra streams and also pumps groundwater from wells. Native tribes are calling for the city to take less water.
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October 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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blue-community.net
Reminder: This week
Rapid Water Privatization in Brazil
JustWaterFutures invites for this forthcoming Event with two Blue Community Ambassadors, Léo Heller and Isadora Cruxên, on Friday, October 24, 2025, 2-3pm CEST
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October 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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ecologistasenaccion.org
Este fin de semana nos hemos reunido decenas de colectivos de toda la península ibérica en Covas do Barroso para celebrar el cuarto encuentro sobre los impactos sociales y ambientales de la minería.

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October 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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In 2024, we returned to the site to make a film with @endsreport.com, TOXIC featuring Feargal Sharkey + @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social. Sometime after this, the EA + UK Health Security Agency finally announced an investigation of PFAS pollution around the site.

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October 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Why is the EA overlooking “a giant chunk of toxic material” linked to harm to sexual function, fertility + child development when investigating forever chemicals pollution near a chemical plant in Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire?

Our new article, out now:

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Regulators overlooking toxic Pfas found around Lancashire chemicals plant
Exclusive: Environment Agency not testing for ‘forever chemical’ made by factory despite evidence of emissions
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October 19, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Check out the review by A.E. Cascão of "Nile basin politics: From coordinated to cooperative peace", by S.C. Roach et al.,
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October 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Check out Laura Bray'review of “Fluid geographies: Water, science, and settler colonialism in New Mexico”, by K. Maria. D. Lane,
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Fluid geographies: Water, science, and settler colonialism in New Mexico (Lane, 2024)
Laura Bray Lane, K. M. D. (2024). Fluid geographies: Water, science, and settler colonialism in New Mexico. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226833958 (paper back US$35)/ 97802262949...
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October 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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The October 2025 issue of Water Alternatives is now available",
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October 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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River abstraction has soared 76% over two decades, threatening rivers, ecosystems and future supply. Water companies fall back on extracting more from already stressed rivers 4/4
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England’s rivers ‘under threat’ as water extraction surges to record levels
Exclusive: Investigation finds 76% rise in water taken from rivers and lakes for industrial or public consumption in two decades
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September 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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EXCLUSIVE: £500m Thames Water desalination plant has provided just seven days’ water over 15 years! 1/4
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£500m Thames Water desalination plant has provided just seven days’ water over 15 years
Plant in Beckton has run only five times and has been beset by multiple problems since it was built
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September 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Ed Davey's not mad keen on Thames Water's new project, calling it "ludicrous" and "stupid"...
September 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Check out:
"Unravelling socio-material complexities in river connectivity restoration: Understanding fishways as heterogeneous networks"
Panos Panagiotopoulos and colleagues,
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Panos Panagiotopoulos: fishpass in the Waterschap Brabantse Delta
September 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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“One of the more insightful and practical papers on water modeling I've had the pleasure of reading this year …” | Robert Shibatani posted on the topic | LinkedIn
“One of the more insightful and practical papers on water modeling I've had the pleasure of reading this year …” Led by a team from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Wageningen University, and the Univ...
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August 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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New article:
"Water infrastructures and local power in peripheral urbanisation: New insights from urban political ecology in São Paulo", by Tade Rücker and Rainer Wehrhahn
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September 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Checkout:
"User acceptance of digital groundwater technologies: A data governance perspective", by Tanya Baycheva and colleagues
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September 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Check out Jonatan Godinez Madrigal's Review of
"Crisis sociohídrica en la ribera del lago de Chapala",
edited by Susana Herrera-Lima,
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September 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Check out Owen McIntyre's Review of
“Governing groundwater: between law and practice”,
by G. Cuadrado-Quesada
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September 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Check out François Molle's review of "Mega dams in world literature: Literary responses to twentieth-century dam building”, by Margaret Ziolkowski,
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September 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Are Mekong River flows dwindling down?
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"Mekong River dry season changes due to hydropower dams and extractive processes", by Ian G. Baird and colleagues
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Ian G. Baird - Dead kok lam seng Ramsar Stung Treng April 2024 (2)
September 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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CHECK OUT:
"Exploring the diverse motivations of volunteer water management committees in rural Malawi", by Ian Cunningham and colleagues
www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol18/v18issue3/790-a18-3-2
September 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM