Water International

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Volume 46, issue 7-8, 2021

Words from the pages of Water International of the first 15 IWRA presidents pp. 969-972

James E. Nickum

A note from the editors pp. 973-975

Renée Martin-Nagle, James E. Nickum, Cecilia Tortajada and Philippus Wester

Water governance indicators in theory and practice: applying the OECD’s water governance indicators in the North American Great Lakes region pp. 976-999

Carolyn Johns

The future of piped water pp. 1000-1016

Anita Milman, Emily Kumpel and Kaycie Lane

Binational reflections on pathways to groundwater security in the Mexico–United States borderlands pp. 1017-1036

Rosario Sanchez, José Agustin Breña-Naranjo, Alfonso Rivera, Randall T. Hanson, Antonio Hernández-Espriú, Rick J. Hogeboom, Anita Milman, Jude A. Benavides, Adrian Pedrozo-Acuña, Julio Cesar Soriano-Monzalvo, Sharon B. Megdal, Gabriel Eckstein and Laura Rodriguez

Learning from the past to build the future governance of groundwater use in agriculture pp. 1037-1059

Olivier Petit, Aurélien Dumont, Stéphanie Leyronas, Quentin Ballin, Sami Bouarfa, Nicolas Faysse, Marcel Kuper, François Molle, Charlotte Alcazar, Emmanuel Durand, Ridha Ghoudi, Aline Hubert, Selin Le Visage, Imane Messaoudi, Marielle Montginoul, Seyni Ndao, Audrey Richard Ferroudji, Jean-Daniel Rinaudo, Julie Trottier, Olivia Aubriot, Mohamed Elloumi, Marc Boisson, Rhoda Fofack-Garcia, Frédéric Maurel, Dominique Rojat, Bruno Romagny and Emmanuelle Salgues

A critical review of the transboundary aquifers in South-Eastern Europe and new insights from the EU’s water framework directive implementation process pp. 1060-1086

Charalampos Skoulikaris, Jacques Ganoulis and Alice Aureli

Fifty years of water research: has it made a difference? pp. 1087-1098

Neil S. Grigg

Looking back, gazing forward – 50 years of international water law pp. 1099-1115

Patricia Wouters and A. Dan Tarlock

International water law in 2070 pp. 1116-1134

Joseph W. Dellapenna

The water–man eristic dialectics for sustainable hydro-governance pp. 1135-1157

Jacques Ganoulis

Water resource prospects for the next 50 years on the water planet: personal perspectives on a shared history from Earth Day, the Fourth Industrial Revolution and One Health to the futures of alternative energy, bioconvergence and quantum computing pp. 1158-1186

William R. Jones

Changing the development paradigm in African agricultural water management to resolve water and food challenges pp. 1187-1204

Henning Bjornlund, Andre van Rooyen, Jamie Pittock and Vibeke Bjornlund

A role for the IWRA in international water disputes? pp. 1205-1210

Salman M.A. Salman

A new water management model and the role of IWRA in water disputes pp. 1211-1215

Rabi H. Mohtar

Water research and nationalism in the post-truth era pp. 1216-1223

Kevin G. Wheeler and Hussam Hussein

Systems approach and performance-based water resources management pp. 1224-1235

Slobodan P. Simonovic

Reflecting on water challenges of the past, present and future: an intergenerational perspective pp. 1236-1242

Bassel Daher, Rasha Hassan, Amgad ElMahdi, David Molden, Raya Marina Stephan, Monica Garcia Quesada, Rewa Assi, Heather Bond and Sinafekesh Girma Wolde

The first new IWRA Executive Board of our second half-century, 2022-2024 pp. 1243-1243

The Editors

Volume 46, issue 6, 2021

Water insecurity and the state: failure, disconnection and autonomy pp. 779-782

Wendy Jepson, Amber Wutich, Vanessa Lucena Empinotti and Pedro Roberto Jacobi

Governing water insecurity: navigating indigenous water rights and regulatory politics in settler colonial states pp. 783-801

Nicole J. Wilson, Teresa Montoya, Rachel Arseneault and Andrew Curley

Rural water provision at the state-society interface in Latin America pp. 802-820

Sarah T. Romano, Jami Nelson-Nuñez and G. Thomas LaVanchy

Anticipating elite capture: the social devaluation of municipal tap water users in the Phoenix metropolitan area pp. 821-840

Alexandra Brewis, Katie Meehan, Melissa Beresford and Amber Wutich

The optics of ‘Day Zero’ and the role of the state in water security for a township in Cape Town (South Africa) pp. 841-860

G. Thomas LaVanchy, Michael W. Kerwin, Gregory J. Kerwin and Meghan McCarroll

Mobilization of bias: learning from drought and flood crises in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Jakarta pp. 861-882

Suyá Quintslr, Bruno Peregrina Puga and Thanti Octavianti

Water security in two megacities: observations on public actions during 2020 in São Paulo and London pp. 883-899

Estela Macedo Alves, Jo-Anne Geere, Mariana Gutierres Arteiro da Paz, Pedro Roberto Jacobi, Edson Abreu de Castro Grandisoli and Samia Nascimento Sulaiman

Water insecurity and patchwork adaptability in Bangalore’s low-income neighbourhoods pp. 900-918

Georgina Drew, Deepika M. G., Amalendu Jyotishi and Shruthi Suripeddi

Persisting narratives undermine potential water scarcity solutions for informal areas of Mexico City: the case of two settlements in Xochimilco pp. 919-937

Bertha Hernández Aguilar, Amy M. Lerner, David Manuel-Navarrete and J. Mario Siqueiros-García

Autogestión and water sharing networks in Puerto Rico after Hurricane María pp. 938-955

Anais Roque, Amber Wutich, Alexandra Brewis, Melissa Beresford, Carlos García-Quijano, Hilda Lloréns and Wendy Jepson

Advancing urban water security: The urbanization of water–society relations and entry–points for political engagement pp. 956-968

Vanessa Lucena Empinotti, Jessica Budds, Wendy Jepson, Nate Millington, Luciana Nicolau Ferrara, Jo-Anne Geere, Edson Grandisoli, Mariana Gutierres Arteiro Da Paz, Bruno Peregrina Puga, Estela Macedo Alves, Sally Cawood, Pedro Roberto Jacobi, Victor Uehara Kinjo, Andrea Lampis, Ricardo Moretti, Thanti Octavianti, Natalia Periotto, Ruth Quinn, Suyá Quintslr, Samia Sulaiman, Paula Arce Vicente and Noura Wahby

Volume 46, issue 5, 2021

Editors’ introduction pp. 629-632

Raya Marina Stephan and James E. Nickum

Interview pp. 633-636

Lilian del Castillo-Laborde

Resolving the problems of commensurability in valuing water pp. 637-651

Petra Hellegers and Brian Davidson

To intervene or not: strategic choices of the central government in China’s sub-national hydropolitics pp. 652-670

Hua Xing and Puyao Xing

Deconstructing masculinity in water governance pp. 671-676

Kris Hartley and Glen Kuecker

Exploring water access in rural Kenya: narratives of social capital, gender inequalities and household water security in Kitui county pp. 677-696

Salome A. Bukachi, Dalmas Ochieng Omia, Mercy Mbithe Musyoka, Faith Mbithe Wambua, Mariah Ngutu Peter and Marina Korzenevica

A comparative analysis of urban and rural household water insecurity experiences during the 2011–17 drought in Ceará, Brazil pp. 697-722

Wendy Jepson, Paula Tomaz, Jader Oliveira Santos and Juha Baek

Producing energy, depleting water: the energy sector as a driver of seasonal water scarcity in an extractive frontier of the upper Orinoco watershed, Colombia pp. 723-743

Parisa Rinaldi, María Cecilia Roa-García and Sandra Brown

A semi-qualitative approach to the operationalization of the Food–Environment–Energy–Water (FE2W) Nexus concept for infrastructure planning: a case study of the Niger Basin pp. 744-770

Ousmane Seidou, Claudia Ringler, Spela Kalcic, Luca Ferrini, Traoré Abdou Ramani and Abdou Guero

Water International Best Paper 2018 Awards pp. 771-773

The Editors

Water International Best Paper 2019 Awards pp. 774-775

The Editors

Water International Best Paper 2020 Awards pp. 776-778

The Editors

The OECD Principles on Water Governance as a means to an end: how to measure impacts of water governance? pp. ei-ev

The Editors

Volume 46, issue 4, 2021

Editors' introduction pp. 455-458

Raya Marina Stephan and James E. Nickum

Interview pp. 459-461

Olli Varis

Achieving drinking water and sanitation related targets of SDG 6 at Shahidbug slum, Dhaka pp. 462-476

Muhammad Mizanur Rahaman, Ahmed Imtiaz Galib and Farhana Azmi

Strategies for climate change adaptation: lessons learnt from long-term planning in the Netherlands and Bangladesh pp. 477-504

Jos van Alphen, Jaap de Heer and Ellen Minkman

Groundwater policies and irrigation development: a study of West Bengal, India, 1980–2016 pp. 505-523

Tapas Singh Modak

Managerial, clientelist or populist? Lake governance in the Indian city of Bangalore pp. 524-542

Sanchayan Nath

Got a minute for the future of the Rio Grande? Considering the prospects for a sustainability minute in the wake of the Colorado’s Minute 323 pp. 543-566

Regina M. Buono, Jill Baggerman and Lindsay C. Sansom

Lesson learning in the Colorado River Basin pp. 567-577

Mariana Rivera-Torres, Andrea K. Gerlak and Katharine L. Jacobs

A review on implementing managed aquifer recharge in the Middle East and North Africa region: methods, progress and challenges pp. 578-604

Salah Basem Ajjur and Husam Musa Baalousha

Unpacking wastewater reuse arrangements through a new framework: insights from the analysis of Egypt pp. 605-625

Mohamed Hassan Tawfik, Jaime Hoogesteger, Amgad Elmahdi and Petra Hellegers

Yahia Abdel Mageed (1925–2021) pp. 626-627

Asit K. Biswas

Volume 46, issue 3, 2021

Editors’ introduction pp. 291-296

Raya Marina Stephan and James E. Nickum

IWRA 50th anniversary interview pp. 297-298

Soontak Lee

IWRA 50th anniversary interview pp. 299-302

Slobodan Simonovic

IWRA 50th anniversary interview pp. 303-305

Ben Dziegielewski

When the water runs dry: supporting adaptive governance in transboundary river basins pp. 306-324

Sabine Blumstein and Jacob D. Petersen-Perlman

Economy-wide assessment of potential long-term impacts of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on Sudan pp. 325-341

Khalid Siddig, Mohammed Basheer and Jonas Luckmann

Masculinity and smart water management: why we need a critical perspective pp. 342-344

Anna Kosovac

Public water and Covid-19: Dark clouds and silver linings pp. 345-347

Douglas J. Merrey

Impact of land use and occupation on potential groundwater recharge in a Brazilian savannah watershed pp. 348-364

Arnaldo José Cambraia Neto and Lineu Neiva Rodrigues

The political economy of coordinating water, sanitation and hygiene management policies and programmes for Nigeria pp. 365-382

Emmanuel M. Akpabio and John S. Rowan

The implications of social and economic barriers to safe drinking water for municipal level policy in Ghana pp. 383-396

Benjamin Dosu, Samuel M. Ofori Dei, Mohammed Abubakari and Gabriel Appiah

Diffusion of small-scale pumped irrigation technologies and their association with farmer-led irrigation development in Malawi pp. 397-416

Jean Kamwamba-Mtethiwa, Kenneth Wiyo, Jerry Knox and Keith Weatherhead

Testing an open app-based water management information system and its uptake among stakeholders in the Upper-Comoé river basin (Burkina Faso) pp. 417-431

Sié Palé, Joost Wellens, Farid Traoré, Carla Roncoli, Abdoul-Hamid Mohamed Sallah, B. V. C. Adolphe Zangré and Bernard Tychon

Agri-vector water: boosting rainfed agriculture with urban water allocation to support urban–rural linkages pp. 432-450

Bruce A. Lankford and Catherine F. Grasham

John Anthony (Tony) Allan (29 January 1937 – 15 April 2021) pp. 451-453

The Editors

Volume 46, issue 2, 2021

Introduction to the special issue on source-to-sea management pp. 135-137

Josh Weinberg, Qinhua Fang, Sarantuyaa Zandaryaa, Greg Leslie and James E. Nickum

Building foundations for source-to-sea management: the case of sediment management in the Lake Hawassa sub-basin of the Ethiopian Rift Valley pp. 138-156

Mulugeta Dadi Belete, David Hebart-Coleman, Ruth E. Mathews and Cryton Zazu

Environmental management in the Bohai and Baltic seas from a source-to-sea perspective: challenges and opportunities pp. 157-175

Yan Wang, Erik Lindblom, Yanjing Zhu, Ruth E. Mathews, Mikael Malmaeus and Kun Lei

Success and sustainability of nutrient pollution reduction in the Danube River Basin: recovery and future protection of the Black Sea Northwest shelf pp. 176-194

A. Kovacs and I. Zavadsky

A source-to-sea approach to emerging pollutants in freshwater and oceans: pharmaceuticals in the Baltic Sea region pp. 195-210

Sarantuyaa Zandaryaa and Dmitry Frank-Kamenetsky

A visualization tool for citizen-science marine debris big data pp. 211-223

Graeme F. Clark, Jordan Gacutan, Robert Lawther, Emma L. Johnston, Heidi Tait and Tomasz Bednarz

Community-of-interests across source-to-sea systems: an international law perspective pp. 224-263

Flavia Tavares da Rocha Loures

Governing resilient landscapes across the source-to-sea continuum pp. 264-282

Rebecca Welling, Paulina Filz, James Dalton, Douglas Mark Smith, Janaka de Silva and Peter Manyara

IWRA 50th anniversary interview pp. 283-285

Peter Gleick

In memoriam: Janusz Kindler (9 May 1934–8 December 2020) pp. 286-289

The Editors

Volume 46, issue 1, 2021

Editors’ Introduction pp. 1-4

Raya Marina Stephan and James E. Nickum

Reflections on the 50th anniversary of the International Water Resources Association (IWRA) pp. 5-7

Gabriel Eckstein

IWRA is celebrating 50 years! pp. 8-9

Renée Martin-Nagle

Early focus on water strategies for the twenty-first century: IWRA as an interdisciplinary forerunner* pp. 10-15

Malin Falkenmark

IWRA 50th anniversary interview pp. 16-18

Jean Fried

Sino-Kazakhstan transboundary water allocation cooperation study: analysis of willingness and policy implementation pp. 19-36

Chenjun Zheng

Community response to the provision of alternative water supplies: A focus on chronic kidney disease of unknown aetiology (CKDu) in rural Sri Lanka pp. 37-58

Theodore Horbulyk, Kashi Kafle and Soumya Balasubramanya

Livelihood security enhancement though innovative water management in dryland India pp. 59-82

Mark Everard and Harry West

The practical challenges of achieving sustainable wetland agriculture in Nigeria’s Cross River basin pp. 83-97

Emmanuel M. Akpabio and Gabriel S. Umoh

Can a ‘modern’ irrigation system and a traditional smallholder gravitational system coexist? A view from Marakwet, Kenya pp. 98-111

Martina Angela Caretta and Florence Jemutai Cheptum

Drip irrigation as a socio-technical configuration: policy design and technological choice in Western India pp. 112-129

Karan Misquitta and Trevor Birkenholtz

Water supply in a mega-city: a political ecology analysis of Shanghai pp. 130-134

Chad Staddon