In the framework of the Themed Week on Water Between Extremes (see Blue News here), Blue Community Ambassadors Madelaine Moore and Andrea Muehlebach organized a three-days symposium on Water Futures dedicated to the question of financialisation of water. But what is water financialisation? We list some key background articles and will update the list periodically (chronologically with latest article here on the top).
Blinded like a state: Water scarcity and the quantification dilemma in Morocco. By Pierre-Louis Mayaux and Sara Fernandez. In: Geoforum Vol. 155, October 2024. (full text and PDF available)
Securing financial returns in politically uncertain worlds: Finance and urban water politics in Brazil. By Isadora A Cruxên, published in SageJournals 2024. (full text and PDF available)
Community water debts in Colombia: Financialisation from below? By Brendan Ecuyer. In: Geoforum Vol. 154, August 2024. (abstract, introduction and snippets available for free)
‘Water for all’: The unlikely confluence of divergent interests (in resisting neoliberalism and promoting human rights) in Mumbai’s slums. By Kate Bayliss and Pranjal Deekshit. In: Geoforum Vol. 153, July 2024. (full text and PDF available)
Failed privatisation in urban water utilities: Can PuPs pick up the pieces? Reviewing evidence from Dar es Salaam, 2005–2018. By Elliot Rooney. In: Geoforum Vol 152, June 2024. (full text and PDF available)
Water trading markets: Facilitating financial flows through the hydro-social cycle? By Madelaine Moore. In: Geoforum Vol. 150, March 2024 (full text and PDF available for free)
Water, Finance and Financialisation: A Review, By Nadine Reis, German Vargas Magaña and Santiago Vélez Villegas. In: Water Alternatives 17(2) (PDF available for free)
Landscapes of debt: Urban water supply and the production of space under peripheral financialization. By Nadine Reis and Samira Sanchez Trujillo. In: Geoforum Vol. 148, January 2024 (full text and PDF available for free)
From state to system: Financialization and the water-energy-food-climate nexus. By Jeremy J. Schmidt and Nathanial Matthews. In: Geoforum Vol. 91, Mai 2018 (abstract, introduction and snipplets available for free)
Water infrastructure and the making of financial subjects in the south east of England. By Alex Loftus, Hug March and Fiona Nash. In: Water Alternatives Vol. 9 (2), 2026 (full PDF available)
Financialising nature? By Alex Loftus and Hug March. In: Geoforum Vol. 60, March 2015. (introduction and snipplets available for free)
The muddy waters of financialisation and new accumulation strategies in the global water industry: The case of AGBAR. By Hug March and Thomas Purcell. In: Geoforum Vol. 53, May 2014. (abstract, introduction and snipplets for free)
The Financialization of Water. By Kate Bayliss. In: Review of Radical Political Economics Vol. 46(3), 2014 (restricted access)
