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Oct

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Water Alternatives Issue – Hydraulic Bureaucracies: Flows of Water, Flows of Power

October 9, 2009 | Posted by Michael "Aquadoc" Campana
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Most of the current (October 2009) issue of the open-access journal Water Alternatives is devoted to Hydraulic Bureaucracies: Flows of Water, Flows of Power. There are some great articles here, including one by Aguanomics czar David Zetland:

The end of abundance: How water bureaucrats created and destroyed the southern California oasis

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You can download the papers for free, although you may have to register.

Articles

Is water lagging behind on aid effectiveness? Lessons from Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Uganda
Katharina Welle, Josephine Tucker, Alan Nicol, Barbara Evans
Water Alternatives 2(3): 297-314

Institutions that cannot manage change: A Gandhian perspective on the Cauvery dispute in South India
Narendar Pani
Water Alternatives 2(3): 315-327

Theme Section: Hydraulic Bureaucracies: Flows of Water, Flows of Power

Hydraulic bureaucracies: Flows of water, flows of power
François Molle, Peter P. Mollinga, Philippus Wester
Water Alternatives 2(3): 328-349

The end of abundance: How water bureaucrats created and destroyed the southern California oasis
David Zetland
Water Alternatives 2(3): 350-369

“Agua para todos”: The new ´regionalist´ hydraulic paradigm in Spain
Elena Lopez-Gunn
Water Alternatives 2(3): 416-439

The hydraulic mission and the Mexican hydrocracy: Regulating and reforming the flows of water and power
Philippus Wester, Edwin Rap, Sergio Vargas-Velázquez
Water Alternatives 2(3): 395-415

Hydraulic bureaucracy in a modern hydraulic society – Strategic group formation in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Hans-Dieter Evers and Simon Benedikter
Water Alternatives 2(3): 416-439

The fluctuating political appeal of water engineering in Australia
Lin R. Crase, Suzanne M. O’Keefe, Brian E. Dollery
Water Alternatives 2(3): 440-447

Beyond bureaucracy? Assessing institutional change in the governance of water in England
Nigel Watson, Hugh Deeming and Raphael Treffny
Water Alternatives 2(3): 448-460

The Water Resources Board: England and Wales’ venture into national water resource planning 1964-73
Christine McCulloch
Water Alternatives 2(3): 461-475

Viewpoint

The right irrigation? Policy directions for agricultural water management in sub-Saharan Africa
Bruce Lankford
Water Alternatives 2(3): 476-480

Book Review

Global corruption report 2008: Corruption in the water sector (Zinnbauer, D. and Dobson, R. 2008).
Undala Alam
Water Alternatives 2(3): 481-482

Enjoy! I will!

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