The cases in this issue cover a range of water and health challenges in various socio-political and geographical contexts. Past attempts to bring more analytical rigor to the field of comparative water and health research or to integrate various methods systematically have not yet been very...

A "policy as process" perspective is adopted to analyze the early period of water users associations (WUAs) in Uzbekistan (2000-2006). The article is based on extensive fieldwork (in 2005-2006) and analysis of policy and other relevant documents. It is shown that WUAs have a role and logic...