ABSTRACT
Professor Tony Allan (Allan, 2003) of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) London Water Research Group, King's College, London, states that:
The history of water management over the past two centuries has been shown to have been subject to a sequence of sanctioned discourses. A discourse is sanctioned or not by the extent to which the policy is the result of what social theorists call a ‘hegemonic convergence’. When coalitions come together they are partial in their selection of assumptions and information to feed into the policymaking discourse. Self-serving assumptions and information gets on to agendas, gets discussed and influences policy outcomes. Unwelcome information is relegated to appendices or ignored.
