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Water security through community-directed monitoring in the Canadian Columbia Basin: democratizing watershed data Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Kat Hartwig, Paige Thurston, Hunter Smith, Martin Carver, Greg Utzig, Ryan MacDonald, Ashlee Jollymore, Nicole Trigg
The Columbia Basin Water Monitoring Framework (CBWMF) aims to help quantify the impacts of climate change on freshwater sources in the Canadian Columbia Basin. By involving stakeholders and priorit...
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How does a master plan contribute to strengthening transboundary water management? A case study in West Africa Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Miléna Poncin, Andrew Ogilvie, Luc Descroix, Issam Chariag, Clément Balique
The first Masterplan for the Gambia River Basin Development Organisation (OMVG) was recently co-constructed through extensive consultation, participatory workshops, and hydro-economic modelling. Re...
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Governance of the binational basin of the Bermejo and Grande de Tarija rivers between Argentina and Bolivia (1995–2019) Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Guillermina Elias
The transboundary basin of the Bermejo and Grande de Tarija rivers, shared between Argentina and Bolivia, is a key area in the water system of the La Plata Basin. The governance of this basin prese...
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Multistakeholder regional dialogues as catalysers for transboundary water cooperation Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Yumiko Yasuda, Yelysaveta Demydenko, Dimitris Faloutsos, Laurent-Charles Tremblay-Lévesque
Multistakeholder dialogues (MSDs) provide unique opportunities for partners and key stakeholders to meet in a neutral space, get to know each other, and build trust and mutual understanding before ...
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Integrated solutions to improve wastewater quality in Mendoza and Santiago River Basin Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 F. Sebastián Riera, Victor Manuel Mijangos Pulido, Irma Livier De Regil Sánchez, Mara Hoffmeister
This study compares water quality governance in the Mendoza and Santiago River Basins, examining the impact of distinct policies and institutional structures in Argentina and Mexico. Despite differ...
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A tale of service regimes in irrigated urban agriculture: evidence from two cities in the Global South Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Bas J.M. van Vliet, Kamonashish Haldar, Matthijs T. Wessels, Katarzyna Kujawa-Roeleveld, Gert Jan Veldwisch
This paper presents a service regime perspective on irrigated agricultural practices and their governance in cities of the developing world. Findings of the governance of irrigated urban agricultur...
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Rethinking urban water management: a case study of vulnerability in the Kingston Basin Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Shaneica Lester
Climate change has created much uncertainty about the future sustainability of freshwater resources. This study presents a hydro-social approach to vulnerability reduction within the Kingston Hydro...
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Assessing water management through decentralization: state–region issues in the Ebro Basin (Spain) Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Albert Santasusagna Riu
The sustainable, integrated, and representative management of water is one of the main challenges faced by governments worldwide, especially where water resources are not abundant, such as the Ebro...
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Irrigated urban agriculture: a mixture of farming scales, water flows and actors in Nairobi, Kenya Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Arcadius Martinien Agassin Ahogle, Sammy Letema
Irrigated urban agriculture (IUA) is important for urban food systems and livelihoods but has many unknown socio-technical configurations. This article examines the dynamics of farm irrigation and ...
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Comparing the impacts of different irrigation systems on the livelihoods of women and youth: evidence from clustered data in Ghana Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Pamela Giselle Katic
In Sub-Saharan Africa, empirical evidence has shown that irrigation can have positive impacts on agricultural production and farm incomes. This study uses a rigorous propensity score matching analy...
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The practices and politics of irrigated urban agriculture Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Gert Jan Veldwisch, Priyanie Amerasinghe, Sammy Letema, Matthijs T. Wessels
Published in Water International (Vol. 49, No. 2, 2024)
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Technological solutions for harnessing the urban water potential in the Bengal Delta – a scenario planning approach Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Kamonashish Haldar, Katarzyna Kujawa-Roeleveld, Devon Dekkers, Dilip Kumar Datta, Huub Rijnaarts
Given the future uncertainties regarding the availability of irrigation water in the Bengal Delta, planned water reuse in agriculture is a viable alternative. Using scenario planning, this paper de...
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Farming and the city: the changing imaginary of the city and Maputo’s irrigated urban agriculture from 1960 to 2020 Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Natalia Reyes Tejada, Michelle Kooy, Margreet Zwarteveen
Irrigated urban agriculture using various water sources has been consistently present throughout Maputo’s history. Grounded in Infulene Valley, we delve into how urban planning has evolved since 19...
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Faecal contamination on lettuce irrigated with different water sources in Maputo, Mozambique Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 C. A. Niquice-Janeiro, A. Marques Arsénio, G. Medema, J. B. van Lier
Faecal contamination across the lettuce value chain was assessed in Maputo, Mozambique. Escherichia coli was used as an indicator of faecal contamination, with concentrations ranging from 3.4 to 5....
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Agriculture and the ideals of urban modernity: the case of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Matthijs T. Wessels, Gert Jan Veldwisch, Bas J.M. van Vliet, Alphonce G. Kyessi, Shaaban M. Mgana
This article studies the policy dynamics of irrigated agriculture in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, based on stakeholder interviews and a literature review. We found that irrigated urban agriculture rece...
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International Meuse Commission: 20 years of cooperation Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Jean-Noël Pansera
Following the adoption of the Water Convention in Helsinki in 1992 and the Water Framework Directive in 2000, states located within a transboundary river basin were invited to set up basin organiza...
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Take it as a compliment: integrating complementary measures as the next chapter of Murray–Darling Basin water management Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Christine Freak, Claire Miller
The Murray-Darling Basin has undergone significant reform, primarily focused on rebalancing water shares between diversions and the environment. The Murray-Darling Basin Plan and earlier reforms ha...
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Provisioning of water ecosystem services in the Kapingazi River Basin in Kenya: can prospects of willingness to pay improve water quality and quantity? Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Burnice Karimi Ireri, Paul M. Makenzi, Stanley M. Makindi, Peter A. Minang, John M. Mironga
The Kapingazi River Basin in Kenya is home to a range of ecosystem services. Agricultural and industrial activities have negatively impacted water quality and flows. This study assesses the willing...
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Integrating water charges policies and watershed plans for improved investment and financial sustainability in water resources management Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Guilherme Fernandes Marques, Rosa Maria Formiga-Johnsson, Patrick Laigneau, Ana Paula Dalcin, Stela Goldenstein, Iraúna Bonilha, Iporã Possantti
This paper proposes a dual-feedback process that links watershed plan actions with raw water charges. A dedicated decision support model is created to implement this process and allow long-term fin...
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Water governance in the Mekong region: the role and impact of civil society organizations Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Andrea Haefner
The Mekong River Basin is facing growing challenges in managing water resources, environmental protection and sustainable development whilst fostering rapid economic development within a region of ...
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Expectations and reality of IWRM implementation across 30 years of water management in Poland Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Tomasz Walczykiewicz, Monika Bryła, Katarzyna Kraj
In Poland, starting from the early 1990s, political, economic and social transformations have also included water management. This case study analyses the changes in legislation in Poland over the ...
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Benefit-sharing dialogue to promote and guide investment decisions in the Sio-Malaba-Malakisi (SMM) transboundary basin, shared between Kenya and Uganda Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 John P. Owino
As climate change impacts and competition for water increases, sharing of water resources is becoming a challenging endeavour. This becomes harder in a transboundary setting where a basin is shared...
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Institutionalizing groundwater management and transboundary aquifer cooperation in sub-Saharan lake and river basin organizations Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Arnaud Sterckx, Christina Fraser, Kevin Pietersen, Moustapha Diene
Groundwater is a major source of water supply and supports many ecosystems in sub-Saharan Africa. According to Integrated Water Resources Management principles, institutionalizing groundwater manag...
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Up close and personal: an essential ingredient in transboundary water basin agreements Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Kathleen Rugel
While the media is filled with accounts of water scarcity and threats to water quality, abundant examples of effective transboundary water resource agreements exist throughout the world. This artic...
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Malin Falkenmark, 1925–2023 Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-25
Published in Water International (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)
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Editors’ introduction Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Raya Marina Stephan, James E. Nickum
Published in Water International (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)
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The Ven Te Chow Memorial Lecture: Environment and Development: Urgent Need for a Water Perspective Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-25
Published in Water International (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)
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Towards an enhancement of the climate change mitigation capacity of inland saline shallow lakes through hydrological regime and vegetation management: a modelling approach Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Alba Camacho-Santamans, Daniel Morant, Carlos Rochera, Antonio Picazo, Antonio Camacho
Inland saline shallow lakes play a role in the carbon and greenhouse gases exchange with the atmosphere and their climate regulation capacity is highly influenced by their ecological status and man...
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The Portuguese dams of the international Douro, climate change and adaptation strategies: perspectives within the framework of the Albufeira Convention and the Water Framework Directive Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Francisco Silva Costa, Hélder Silva Lopes
The Douro international region in Portugal is vulnerable to reduced water availability due to climate change. By using spatial data, it is possible to synthesize the hydrometeorological effects in ...
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Reduction of micropollutants in the Rhine catchment area – monitoring and assessment system Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Tabea Stötter, Nikola Livrozet, Friederike Vietoris
The programme ‘Rhine 2040’ of the International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine (ICPR) states that the ‘influx of micropollutants into waters from municipal waste water collection and tr...
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Governance and management of large US river basins in diverse regions under a federal government model Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Neil Grigg
How water governance mechanisms differ is evident in three diverse basins in the United States: the Colorado River, the Missouri River, and the linked Apalachicola–Chattahoochee–Flint and Alabama–C...
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A shared water culture between the European Union and the Countries of the Eastern Neighbourhood Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Alexander Belokurov, Chloé Déchelette, Matthew Griffiths, Guy Halpern, Philippe Seguin, Alexander Zinke
This article outlines the progress and challenges faced by the European Union’s Eastern Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) in aligning their water management ...
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Local institutional adaptation to groundwater overexploitation challenges: case study from Copiapó aquifer, Chile Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Rodrigo Fuster, Cristian Escobar-Avaria, Katherinne Silva-Urrutia, Hilda Moya-Jofré, Ana Karina Palacios-Quezada
Chile’s approach to water management, based on a private property regimen combined with a period of extreme drought, had led to the overexploitation of groundwater. To address this issue, groundwat...
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Sanitation in a changing world: the need for a paradigm shift in the mindset of development agencies Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 V. Subramanian Saravanan
National and international agencies have struggled to address sanitation challenges for over a century without groundbreaking evidence of success. The context of sanitation management has changed o...
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Towards effective cooperation dynamics in transboundary river basins: a case study of the Nile and Orontes rivers Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Mohamed Hassan Tawfik, Rasha Hassan, Raya Marina Stephan, Ahmed Rezk
Currently the Nile and the Orontes River basins are in the international spotlight as tension escalates between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia in the former and between Syria and Turkey in the latter. I...
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The ICPR measuring programme chemistry and its monitoring approach – a look back and a glimpse of the future Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Lars Duester, Nikola Livrozet, Sabrina Poturalski, Tabea Stoetter, Anna-Lena Gerloff, Marc Daniel Heintz
The Rhine measuring programme chemistry dates back to 1953, and its monitoring network as well as procedures have changed significantly over time. Next to pressures from industry and household wast...
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Participatory analysis of water-related conflict risks in complex adaptive systems – the case of the Inner Niger Delta in Mali Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Karen S. Meijer, Rozemarijn ter Horst, Euan Mackway-Jones, Luca Ferrini, Beteo Zongo, Mori Diallo, Ibrahima Sado Fofana, Karounga Keïta
To avoid negative societal implications from water management actions, the complex interrelations between water and conflict need to be understood. Assessment of such links in complex adaptive syst...
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Critical analysis of the river basin management system in South Korea since 2018 Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Seungho Lee
The study analyses the newly established river basin management system in South Korea since the 2018 Framework Act on Water Management. Several river basin organizations have been introduced in Kor...
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Reflections on transboundary water conflict and cooperation trends Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Alexandra Turgul, Melissa McCracken, Susanne Schmeier, Zoe H. Rosenblum, Lynette de Silva, Aaron T. Wolf
This article explores major findings and evolutions in understandings of transboundary water conflict and cooperation over the last three decades, focusing on the trends emerging from the Transboun...
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Scalar politics in international water law Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Heping Dang
This paper examines the shift in international water law from traditional nation-state governance to embracing hydrological units such as watersheds through the lens of scalar politics. It scrutini...
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Access to water and COVID-19: a regression discontinuity analysis for the peri-urban areas of metropolitan Lima, Peru Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Andrés Gómez-Lobo, Mauro Gutiérrez, Sandro Huamaní, Diego Marino, Tomás Serebrisky, Ben Solís
This paper presents the results of a quasi-experimental study using information collected through a survey conducted in peri-urban areas of metropolitan Lima and applied to households residing clos...
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Water-food-energy nexus assessment for major agricultural crops and different irrigation methods of Lake Urmia basin, Iran Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Taha Maarefi, Ali Ashrafi, Hamed Ebrahimian, Hossein Dehghanisanij, Mohammad Sharifi
In this study, the water-food-energy nexus in the Lake Urmia basin was investigated to establish a balance between water and energy consumption, aiming to protect the environment and ensure food se...
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Does data lead to cooperation? Lessons from Water Accounting Plus in the Cauvery basin, India Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Rozemarijn ter Horst, Claire I. Michailovsky, Elga Salvadore, Chaitanya K. S.
As the number of studies on remote sensing data for water management and governance increases, few articles reflect on their application in practice. This article shares learnings from the applicat...
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Exploring the use of data and models in transboundary water governance Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Rozemarijn ter Horst, Veena Srinivasan, Kevin Wheeler, Jos Timmerman, Pieter van der Zaag
Published in Water International (Vol. 48, No. 8, 2023)
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Data-sharing and decision support system to improve governance in transboundary waters in the La Plata River basin Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Isabela Battistello Espíndola, Luis Paulo Batista da Silva
Since 2016, the Intergovernmental Coordinating Committee of the La Plata Basin Countries has developed and implemented a decision support system (DSS) aimed at articulating, processing and integrat...
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Dam operation using satellite data and hydrological models: the case of Roseires dam and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in the Blue Nile River Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Mohamed A. Hassan, Mahmoud F. Hassan, Yasir A. Mohamed, Wail A. Awad
The unexpected drop of the Blue Nile water in July 2020, attributed to the sudden closure of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) during the first filling in 2020, significantly interrupted t...
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Using data collection to build trust and ownership in transboundary water allocation planning: a case study from the Mara River Basin Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Lauren Zielinski, Michael McClain, William Ojwang, Christian Joseph, David Tickner, Gordon Mumbo, Ali Said Matano, Joel Nobert, Annette Huber-Lee
Following a 2015 Memorandum of Understanding, efforts began to develop a transboundary water allocation plan in the Mara River Basin between Kenya and Tanzania. Many lessons were learned along that...
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Basin-wide knowledge exchange for the sustainable management of the Colorado River Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Kevin G. Wheeler, Terrance Fulp, Roberto F. Salmon-Castelo
The Colorado River is facing a crisis resulting from demands that have outstripped diminishing supplies, exacerbated by a severe multi-decadal drought and the effects of climate change. As particip...
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Open-access remote sensing data for cooperation in transboundary water management Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 S. G. Yalew, P. van der Zaag, B. N. Tran, C. I. B. Michailovsky, E. Salvadore, E. Borgomeo, P. Karimi, S. Pareeth, S. D. Seyoum, M. L. Mul
Open-access remote sensing products provide data for transboundary water management. This study presents a comprehensive overview of the applications, uncertainties and implications of these remote...
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Developing the transboundary Long Term Vision of the Scheldt Estuary – an untold story Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Jill H. Slinger
The development of the bilateral Long Term Vision for the Scheldt Estuary between 1999 and 2001 reveals that it is possible to move from a history of conflict to cooperation in just two years. A re...
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Housing inadequacy and income in Brazil: water supply and sewage in metropolitan areas Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Frederico Poley Martins Ferreira, Gabriel Do Carmo Lacerda
This article analyses how households in Brazil, in urban areas of metropolitan regions, with distinct income ranges, can or cannot access adequate housing services, especially water supply and sani...
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Liminal waters, contested imaginaries: Andean comunas and Ecuador’s new water law Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Martina Nebbiai, K. Maria D. Lane, Natali Cáceres-Arteaga
This article examines the impacts of Ecuador’s 2014 water law on comunas ancestrales (traditional communal Andean villages), highlighting a disconnect between formal legal frameworks and day-to-day...
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Editors’ introduction Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Raya Marina Stephan, James E. Nickum
Published in Water International (Vol. 48, No. 7, 2023)
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Governance attributes for building water resilience: a literature review Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Panchali Saikia, Alejandro Jiménez
Resilience has gained prominence in many fields of research and practice globally. In the water sector, efforts to build resilience have become a central feature of water governance. However, curre...
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The advent of EU water reuse regulation in the Mediterranean region: policy and legislative adaptation to address non-conventional water resources utilization in agriculture Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Anna Berti Suman, Laura García-Herrero, Stevo Lavrnić, Maria Chiara Sole, Attilio Toscano, Matteo Vittuari
The provision of safe, sustainable and accepted ways of water supply for the Mediterranean basin by using non-conventional water resources is key to reducing the gap between agricultural water dema...
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Re-inventing the underprivileged irrigation tenant? A socio-historical perspective on irrigation rights in Zimbabwe as defined by the 2021 Irrigable Areas (Control) regulations Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Emmanuel Manzungu
Both colonial and post-colonial administrations in Zimbabwe identified irrigation as important for climate-proofing the agriculture sector, and put measures to this end. The 2021 Regulations are th...
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Enhancing water security in a changing world: experiences and perspectives in China and implications for the world Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Jun Xia
Published in Water International (Vol. 48, No. 7, 2023)
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Beijing Declaration Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-26
Published in Water International (Vol. 48, No. 6, 2023)
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On contingency, confidence and trust: how international water law stabilizes expectations under conditions of uncertainty Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Kenneth Kang
How is international water law able to stabilize expectations amid uncertain conditions? We use modern systems theory to hypothesize using the Lancang–Mekong River context. We propose: Hypothesis 1...
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An evaluation framework for localized groundwater supply systems at critical facilities Water Int. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Gavin V. M. Kode, Thokozani Kanyerere, Kevin Pietersen
To survive the 2017/18 water crisis in the Western Cape Province of South Africa and to prepare for a challenging water future, the Western Cape Government developed and implemented plans to ensure...