ABSTRACT
Whilst the authors engaged in this book offer numerous perspectives from many disciplines, there appears to be consensus on one element of water challenges: that solutions lie as much outside the watershed as within it. Working within what Allan (1998) has called the ‘problemshed’, there is nonetheless the likelihood that the different approaches take us in dissonant or even competing directions. We thus run the risk of collectively developing an inadequate version of the robust yet flexible conceptualisation of water security that, I think, is required. The peril that serves to guide this chapter is that our efforts serve to develop policy that leads to selective (i.e., our own) temporary water security, at the cost of water insecurity for others.
