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Water Alternatives @waalternatives.bsky.social · 1d

Check out Laura Bray'review of “Fluid geographies: Water, science, and settler colonialism in New Mexico”, by K. Maria. D. Lane,
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Fluid geographies: Water, science, and settler colonialism in New Mexico (Lane, 2024)

Laura Bray Lane, K. M. D. (2024). Fluid geographies: Water, science, and settler colonialism in New Mexico. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226833958 (paper back US$35)/ 97802262949...

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Water Alternatives @waalternatives.bsky.social · 5d

The October 2025 issue of Water Alternatives is now available",
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Rachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social · 12d

River abstraction has soared 76% over two decades, threatening rivers, ecosystems and future supply. Water companies fall back on extracting more from already stressed rivers 4/4
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England’s rivers ‘under threat’ as water extraction surges to record levels

Exclusive: Investigation finds 76% rise in water taken from rivers and lakes for industrial or public consumption in two decades

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Rachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social · 12d

EXCLUSIVE: £500m Thames Water desalination plant has provided just seven days’ water over 15 years! 1/4
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£500m Thames Water desalination plant has provided just seven days’ water over 15 years

Plant in Beckton has run only five times and has been beset by multiple problems since it was built

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Rachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social · 12d

Ed Davey's not mad keen on Thames Water's new project, calling it "ludicrous" and "stupid"...

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Water Alternatives @waalternatives.bsky.social · 12d

Check out:
"Unravelling socio-material complexities in river connectivity restoration: Understanding fishways as heterogeneous networks"
Panos Panagiotopoulos and colleagues,
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Panos Panagiotopoulos: fishpass in the Waterschap Brabantse Delta

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Margreet Zwarteveen @mzwarteveen.bsky.social · Aug 6

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“One of the more insightful and practical papers on water modeling I've had the pleasure of reading this year …” | Robert Shibatani posted on the topic | LinkedIn

“One of the more insightful and practical papers on water modeling I've had the pleasure of reading this year …” Led by a team from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Wageningen University, and the Univ...

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Water Alternatives @waalternatives.bsky.social · 12d

New article:
"Water infrastructures and local power in peripheral urbanisation: New insights from urban political ecology in São Paulo", by Tade Rücker and Rainer Wehrhahn
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Water Alternatives @waalternatives.bsky.social · 12d

Checkout:
"User acceptance of digital groundwater technologies: A data governance perspective", by Tanya Baycheva and colleagues
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Water Alternatives @waalternatives.bsky.social · 27d

Check out Jonatan Godinez Madrigal's Review of
"Crisis sociohídrica en la ribera del lago de Chapala",
edited by Susana Herrera-Lima,
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Water Alternatives @waalternatives.bsky.social · 27d

Check out Owen McIntyre's Review of
“Governing groundwater: between law and practice”,
by G. Cuadrado-Quesada
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Water Alternatives @waalternatives.bsky.social · 28d

Check out François Molle's review of "Mega dams in world literature: Literary responses to twentieth-century dam building”, by Margaret Ziolkowski,
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Water Alternatives @waalternatives.bsky.social · Sep 4

Are Mekong River flows dwindling down?
CHECK OUT
"Mekong River dry season changes due to hydropower dams and extractive processes", by Ian G. Baird and colleagues
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Ian G. Baird - Dead kok lam seng Ramsar Stung Treng April 2024 (2)

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Water Alternatives @waalternatives.bsky.social · Sep 4

CHECK OUT:
"Exploring the diverse motivations of volunteer water management committees in rural Malawi", by Ian Cunningham and colleagues
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Water Alternatives @waalternatives.bsky.social · Jul 4

Just out:
Working class water justice: Salvadoran sindicalistas and the fight for a ‘just and dignified life’, by Claudia Díaz-Combs
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Water Alternatives @waalternatives.bsky.social · Jun 30

Read J.T Van Stan's review of “The River as Haiku”, by Keith Beven,
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Water Alternatives @waalternatives.bsky.social · Jun 24

Access over 600 Open-Access articles at Water Alternatives through its interactive map
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and contribute to the journal (IF: 3.6)

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Water Alternatives @waalternatives.bsky.social · Jun 8

SPECIAL ISSUE
"Modeling Water Worlds",
edited by Alba, Krueger, Melsen and Venot
A critical discussion on water modeling
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Water Alternatives @waalternatives.bsky.social · Jun 6

Check out new review article:
"The Changing Meaning of Wild Rivers: A Review",
by Régis Barraud
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DZHIMDAN RIVER, SAKHALIN ISLAND, RUSSIA - JUNE 2008. Healthy section of the mainstream Dzhimdan River. This habitat provides high biodiversity for a range of fish and wildlife species and was spared from burning during major forest fires that swept the area. Field work was to develop restoration plan for the watershed. Photo by Dave Heller/USAID

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Water Alternatives @waalternatives.bsky.social · Jun 4

Check out!
"A politics of global datasets and models in flood risk management" by J. Cohen, A. Mdee and colleagues.
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An April 2025 flood risk workshop for Aysaita refugee camp, Ethiopia, involving UNHCR and government stakeholders, among others. Participants and facilitators, including Mark A Trigg (a present co-author), explored pros and cons of different global datasets in the local context. The workshop led to the development of mitigation plans which are being used in discussions with government refugee integration plans. Credit Mark Trigg

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Water Alternatives @waalternatives.bsky.social · Jun 4

New article:
"Modelling as intervention technology: science, politics, and water conflicts", Ehsan Nabavi
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Water Alternatives @waalternatives.bsky.social · May 29

New paper at WaA:
"In pursuit of water policy nirvana: Examining the role of catchment groups in Aotearoa New Zealand", by
E. Challies and colleagues
www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol18/v18issue2/782-a18-2-7

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Water Alternatives @waalternatives.bsky.social · May 28

Questioning modeling:
"Assembling, channeling, and orienting watershed management: The performative roles of computer models in environmental management institutions"
by Jeremy Trombley
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Water Alternatives @waalternatives.bsky.social · May 28

Check out:
"Citizen intercession towards safeguarding the Vishwamitri River, India", by
Neha Sarwate and Shishir R. Raval
www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol18/v18issue2/781-a18-2-6

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Water Alternatives @waalternatives.bsky.social · May 22

Read:
"Shrimp economies and hydrosocial lives in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta", by Yu-Kai Liao
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Farmer and technicians are checking the shrimp health on the super-intensive shrimp farm in Bạc Liêu, Vietnam (credit: Yu-Kai Liao)

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