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Volume 6 | Issue 2

June 2013

With the financial support of GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit)

Special issue:
Voices of Water Professionals: Shedding Light on Hidden Dynamics in the Water Sector
Guest editors: Gil Levine, Miguel Solanes, Mercy Dikito-Wachtmeister

Voices of water professionals: Shedding light on hidden dynamics in the water sector – An introduction
Gil Levine, Miguel Solanes and Mercy Dikito-Wachtmeister
Water Alternatives 6(2): 148-153               Full Text - PDF

Ignorance, error and myth in South Asian irrigation: Critical reflections on experience
Robert Chambers
Water Alternatives 6(2): 154-167               Abstract | Full Text - PDF

The story of a troubled relationship
Ramaswamy R. Iyer
Water Alternatives 6(2): 168-176               Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Reflecting on the chasm between water punditry and water politics
Dipak Gyawali
Water Alternatives 6(2): 177-194               Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Fifty years of hydroelectric development in Chile: A history of unlearned lessons
Michael Nelson
Water Alternatives 6(2): 195-206               Abstract | Full Text - PDF

The Washington Consensus, Chilean water monopolization and the Peruvian draft water law of the 1990s
Miguel Solanes
Water Alternatives 6(2): 207-217               Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Happy like a clam in French water
Pierre-Frédéric Ténière-Buchot
Water Alternatives 6(2): 218-238               Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Why has the South African National Water Act been so poorly implemented?
Barbara Schreiner
Water Alternatives 6(2): 239-245               Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Responding to context: Some lessons from experience in the water sector
Jeremy Berkoff
Water Alternatives 6(2): 246-258               Abstract | Full Text - PDF

The search for understanding irrigation - Fifty years of learning
Gilbert Levine
Water Alternatives 6(2): 259-264               Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Rent-seeking in agricultural water management: An intentionally neglected core dimension?
Walter Huppert
Water Alternatives 6(2): 265-275               Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Swimming against the current: Questioning development policy and practice
Kurt Mørck Jensen
Water Alternatives 6(2): 276-283               Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Development or disbursement – Vested interests and the gulf between theory and practice
Phil Riddell
Water Alternatives 6(2): 284-292               Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Articles

Tapping fresh currents: Fostering early-career researchers in transdisciplinary water governance research
James J. Patterson, Anna Lukasiewicz, Philip J. Wallis, Naomi Rubenstein, Brian Coffey, Elizabeth Gachenga and A. Jasmyn J. Lynch
Water Alternatives 6(2): 293-312               Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Viewpoints

Decision-making on Amazon dams: Politics trumps uncertainty in the Madeira River sediments controversy
Philip Fearnside
Water Alternatives 6(2): 313-325               Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Book Reviews

Shared borders, shared waters: Israeli-Palestinian and Colorado River Basin water challenges (Megdal, S.B., Varady, R.G. and Eden, S. (Eds). 2013).
David B. Brooks
Water Alternatives 6(2): 326-328               Full Text - PDF