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...

<title>A<sc>bstract</sc> </title> This article analyses policy trends in Indonesian irrigation, particularly during the last five decades, from the perspective of dominant narratives, as authored, suggested and pushed by international donors. It argues that international donors' adherence to ‘deferred maintenance’...

Starting from the assessment that past efforts at reform in agricultural water management in developing countries have achieved very little, this article argues that a fundamental change is required in the approach to policy and institutional transformation if the present deadlock in the...

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...