SAWAS as an interdisciplinary journal addresses the contentious issues of cross-border water distribution, utilization, management and mega irrigation/hydro-electric power projects and water resources development, particularly irrigation aiming to provide space for alternative and critical thinking. The journal aims to be an independent forum for discussion about water related issues that affect South Asia: issues in particular countries and regions within South Asia, issues at the level of South Asia as a region, and issues related to the global context in which South Asian Water issues are situated. SAWAS aims to share knowledge of successful resolutions of water related problems as well as constructive analyses of deadlocks and failures, and create an intellectual debate on South Asian water. SAWAS welcomes contributions that discuss any dimension of water resources development, technology and management and use, and their relations with society and the environment.