<span><span><span style="font-style:italic;">Water for Poor Women: Quest for an Alternative Paradigm</span><span>, by Sayeed Iftekhar Ahmed, develops an alternative governance paradigm to ensure poor women’s water security through their participation in the governance process. This study assesses the effects of governance on water distribution and participation from the perspective of poor women and proposes an alternative system of governance for ensuring their participation in the governance processes to promote more equitable distribution of urban water.</span></span></span>