November 2012: Water Policy, the official journal of the World Water Council (WWC), Volume 14, Number 6, has been released. The issue includes articles on drinking water supply, environmental water governance, irrigation management and transboundary water management, and presents cases from Canada, France, India, South Africa, Uganda and Viet Nam.

The journal contains articles titled: return of drinking water supply in Paris to public control; environmental water governance in federal rivers – opportunities and limits for subsidiarity in Australia’s Murray-Darling River; free water for the world’s poor – a review of the strategy of South Africa’s free basic water policy; and dynamics of irrigation management and interlinked agrarian relations – empirical findings from a canal irrigation command in Odisha, India.

Other articles adress: safe water, household income and health challenges in Ugandan homes that harvest rainwater; the tributaries in the Mekong legal regime; estimation of water use efficiencies for water management reform in Southern Alberta irrigated agriculture; analysis and simulation of the influencing factors on regional water use based on information entropy; and key issues and trends in the water policy literature.

The World Water Council is an international multi-stakeholder platform. [Publication: Water Policy, Volume 14, Number 6] [Website of World Water Council]