Water Alternatives is an interdisciplinary journal addressing the full range of social and political issues that water raises in contemporary societies.

Joined July 2022
The water dissensus forum: engage with "Improving "water efficiency" of data centres is a red herring", posted by Sameer Shah water-alternatives.org/index…
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Water Alternatives' 56th issue (Vol. 19 Issue 3) is now available. Access the Table of Contents here: water-alternatives.org/index…
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Engage: "Viewpoint − Water efficiency gains won’t resolve data centres’ contested future " by Sameer H. Shah and colleagues water-alternatives.org/index…
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Just out: "Viewpoint − The case for reconciling water principles with treaty practices in crafting a comprehensive Nile River Basin treaty" by Berhanu Abegaz water-alternatives.org/index…
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READ: "De- and re-infrastructuring the Rhone delta. Contesting ecological modernisation from below" by Antoine Brochet and Joana Guerrin water-alternatives.org/index…
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ACCESS: "New water for a thirsty land: Socio-material bricolage of treated wastewater irrigation on Gozo, Malta" by Georges Gabriel et al. water-alternatives.org/index…
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READ: "The unique Brazilian model of water privatisation: An exploration of the processes shaping a financialised oligopoly" by Gustavo do Amaral Loureiro et al. water-alternatives.org/index…
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New article: "Forces at play – Hydrosocial infrastructuring and the making of the modern Rhine", by Nils Mühlenbrock and colleagues water-alternatives.org/index…
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Just out: "Paradigmatic dimension of water access denial in Mumbai: Examining the ‘Water for All’ policy", by Paroma Wagle water-alternatives.org/index…
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New article: "Why does Florida’s Aquifer continue to decline despite regulations aimed at preserving it: An institutional analysis and way forward", by Douglas Merrey water-alternatives.org/index…
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Just out: "Community-based participatory research and indigenous knowledge: A pathway to climate-resilient and transformative water governance", by Amanda Shankland and colleagues water-alternatives.org/index…
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Read new article: "Cycles of technopolitical transformation and (de)politicisation in water infrastructure: Insights from the Atatürk Dam", by Aybike Alkan and Arda Bilgen water-alternatives.org/index…
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New article: "The geopolitics of water conflict and cooperation in the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin", by Alexandra Turgul water-alternatives.org/index…
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#WaterBooks Read Kanishka Singh's review of “In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Life It Brings”, by J.C Scott, Water Alternatives, water-alternatives.org/index…
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WaA CALL FOR PAPERS "Implementing water policy in the global south: street-level bureaucracy and the everyday negotiation between control and discretion" water-alternatives.org/index… Guest Editors: Sachin Tiwale, Jaap Evers, Klaas Schwartz and Fernando Nieto-Morales
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#WaterBooks Read Gabrielle Bouleau's review of Thirst: the global quest to solve the water crisis. by Filippo Menga (2025). water-alternatives.org/index…
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The June 2026 issue of Water Alternatives is now available", water-alternatives.org/index…
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READ: "Institutional plasticity in river basin organizations: A review of 100 years of Spain’s Confederaciones Hidrográficas (1926-2026)" by Carles Sanchis-Ibor, Leandro Del Moral, Nuria Hernández-Mora and Lucia De Stefano water-alternatives.org/index…
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New article "Currents of water commons research: A review" by Sergio Villamayor-Tomas and colleagues water-alternatives.org/index…
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New article: Older women’s leisurely engagement with water: A ‘wetrospective’ , by Nicole Dalmer and colleagues, water-alternatives.org/index…
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