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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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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 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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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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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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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?
CHECK OUT
"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
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September 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Just out:
Working class water justice: Salvadoran sindicalistas and the fight for a ‘just and dignified life’, by Claudia Díaz-Combs
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July 4, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Read J.T Van Stan's review of “The River as Haiku”, by Keith Beven,
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June 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Access over 600 Open-Access articles at Water Alternatives through its interactive map
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and contribute to the journal (IF: 3.6)
June 24, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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SPECIAL ISSUE
"Modeling Water Worlds",
edited by Alba, Krueger, Melsen and Venot
A critical discussion on water modeling
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June 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Check out new review article:
"The Changing Meaning of Wild Rivers: A Review",
by Régis Barraud
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DZHIMDAN RIVER, SAKHALIN ISLAND, RUSSIA - JUNE 2008. Healthy section of the mainstream Dzhimdan River. This habitat provides high biodiversity for a range of fish and wildlife species and was spared from burning during major forest fires that swept the area. Field work was to develop restoration plan for the watershed. Photo by Dave Heller/USAID
June 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Check out!
"A politics of global datasets and models in flood risk management" by J. Cohen, A. Mdee and colleagues.
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An April 2025 flood risk workshop for Aysaita refugee camp, Ethiopia, involving UNHCR and government stakeholders, among others. Participants and facilitators, including Mark A Trigg (a present co-author), explored pros and cons of different global datasets in the local context. The workshop led to the development of mitigation plans which are being used in discussions with government refugee integration plans. Credit Mark Trigg
June 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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New article:
"Modelling as intervention technology: science, politics, and water conflicts", Ehsan Nabavi
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June 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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New paper at WaA:
"In pursuit of water policy nirvana: Examining the role of catchment groups in Aotearoa New Zealand", by
E. Challies and colleagues
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May 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Questioning modeling:
"Assembling, channeling, and orienting watershed management: The performative roles of computer models in environmental management institutions"
by Jeremy Trombley
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May 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Check out:
"Citizen intercession towards safeguarding the Vishwamitri River, India", by
Neha Sarwate and Shishir R. Raval
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May 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Read:
"Shrimp economies and hydrosocial lives in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta", by Yu-Kai Liao
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Farmer and technicians are checking the shrimp health on the super-intensive shrimp farm in Bạc Liêu, Vietnam (credit: Yu-Kai Liao)
May 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Check out latest paper at WaA:
"Predicting floods to protect property regimes: Situating flood modelling in the River Poddle Catchment, Dublin", by Laure de Tymowski and Elliot Hurst
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Entrance to Celia de Jesus’s basement flat after the 2011 flood event
May 22, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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New paper at WaA:
Water models as geographical chimera: precipitation interception routines as an example of “patchwork empiricism”
by John T. Van Stan and Jack Simmons
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May 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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New paper at WaA:
"The technopolitics of 'urban water' in colonial India: A case study of Hesaraghatta Waterworks in Bangalore", by Akash Jash
www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol18/v18issue2/777-a18-2-2
May 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM