The Water Governance Blog at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Last week, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s prolonged occupation of Palestinian territory is a violation of international law. Michelle Rudolph and Rachel Kurian analyse how the water governance regime imposed by...
In June we organised a workshop in Cairo to kick off the second round of co-production fellowships, pairing journalists and researchers from Nile countries to work together at water science communication projects. This innovative...
Last May, the tenth edition of the World Water Forum confirmed its market-oriented approach to water problems. This paradigm has been at the origin of many of the stories of water injustice that the...
IHE Delft organized the screening of the documentary “I am the River and the River is Me” followed by a panel discussion. Kelsey Wentling reflects on how that movie challenges us to rethink our...
In March 2024, Project Poldergeist released its sixth video: “Why was Sigmund Freud interested in the Afsluitdijk”, an animated psychogram of the Netherlands. A psychogram is a visual representation that captures the distinct qualities...
In this post co-published with ISS blog Bliss, Farhad Mukhtarov, Karen Vargas, Shahnoor Hasan, Jaap Evers, and Leon Hermans reflect on the panel discussion “Towards a Socially Inclusive Dutch Water Sector in the International...
A recently published article illustrates how photography can help clarifying our perspective on water and infrastructures while acknowledging others. In an article published in the latest issue of the journal “Africa e Mediterraneo” I...
A new special issue explores the social, technical, and political dimensions of modelling in the context of international river basins. One of the editors, Rozemarijn ter Horst, interviews Yasir Mohamed, associate professor at IHE...
To honor women’s contributions to the field of water, Ain Contractor designed an exhibition portraying 32 accomplished women nominated by students and staff of the institute. Their portraits have been featured on a special...
Ethno-graphy integrates traditional ethnographic methods with artistic and visual techniques. Jenia Mukherjee and Shreyashi Bhattacharya tell how they used this methodology with students and practitioners to promote new understandings of and relations with the...
An open letter by a group of colleagues at IHE Delft Amidst the ongoing atrocities against the people living in Gaza, we received the news that multiple partners who work with us in research...
We want to stop our planet from burning, but we can’t even stop ourselves from burning. The only news coming about climate change is that it is worsening, Earth is getting warmer, and we...
Mohsen Nagheeby, Alistair Rieu-Clarke, Stephen McCaffrey, Raya Marina Stephan; Ana Elisa Cascão; Owen McIntyre, Alan Nicol, Alex Meland, Hussam Hussein, Francesca de Châtel, Rawia Tawfik, Cara Flowers, Emanuele Fantini, Fuad Bateh. This might be...
The conference and launch of this new book were an opportunity not only to talk about transdisciplinary learning, but also to practice it by connecting politics, pedagogy, and art. On the 9th of September...
Sumit Vij, Timos Karpouzoglou, and Vishal Narain challenge the myth of the formal (state controlled) water as ‘piped’ water versus the informal (non-state) water as ‘non-piped’. Their ethnographic work illustrates how these two water...
The fourth micro-essay of a series inspired by the photos of #EverydayNile, drawing connections among people, places, waters, and stories along the Nile river. Jerrycans are a commonplace in pictures about water in Africa....
