IWRA Proceedings

Content

• Why consider power as a factor in water governance?
  • Whenever something of value is at stake, there are contending interests
  • These interests push and pull to steer policy & management procedures, and especially outcomes they would prefer
  • The question is, how can these interests exert their influence?
  • The answer: By exercising such forms of power as they may wield (e.g., money, votes, patronage, jobs, mass mobilization, moral suasion)
  • In the case of water, the more it’s in short supply or when its use threatens interests, the greater the likelihood of the use of power
• How do actors figure in the exertion of power?
• The actors
• The International Water Security Network