Transaqua: power, political change and the transnational politics of a water megaproject

Clarifying megaproject complexity in developing countries: A literature review and conceptual study

“…For example, the water infrastructure megaproject in Brazil, 110 the international airport in Ecuador, 113 and hydropower in central Africa. 139 In some of these studies, the instability of sociopolitical conditions (political and security uncertainty) made the process and progress unclear, resulting in low megaproject performance. 165,168 This condition also reportedly threatened the security (terrorism) of megaprojects teams.…”

“…Instability of economic conditions, regulatory laws, and politics: This condition is indeed a characteristic of developing countries 74 that exerts an impact on the implementation of megaprojects. 28 Economic, political, and legal instability can result in sudden changes and uncertainty in infrastructure megaprojects, for example, in Kenya, 98,139 India, 32 and Brazil. 110 This uncertainty is related to the determination of property and land prices for megaprojects, 94 among other considerations.…”

COVID-19 and clean water, sanitation and wastewater management

“…In this issue we include three articles that are technical and management in nature (Alexander et al, 2020;Basheer et al, 2019;Prince et al, 2020). Others discuss political change and transnational politics (Adeniran & Daniell, 2020); understanding of water governance systems in extreme droughts (Nguyen et al, 2020); vulnerabilities and capacities for adaptation to water shortages (Schlamovitz & Becker, 2020); meeting water requirements during dry seasons (Goes et al, 2020); and promotion of multiple-use water services (Holm et al, 2020). With the aim of promoting dissemination for those authors who cannot pay for open access, we will continue to choose one article per issue and make it free-to-view online for three months.…”

Reforming for resilience: delivering ‘multipurpose hydropower’ under water and energy risks

“…Further, we note that, as with any major changes to water allocation regimes, the reform options outlined below would create changes in the distribution of benefits from water and energy services provision. This means that their feasibility and prospects of success in a given context will be determined by the political economy of hydropower and water resources development (see Adeniran & Daniell, 2021;Middleton et al, 2019;Pillai & Prasai, 2019;Sovacool & Walter, 2019;Suhardiman & Karki, 2019;Kirchherr et al, 2017 for case studies).…”