Participants in the 7th Water and Peace Seminar reflect on inclusivity and call for concrete actions to promote it in water diplomacy and cooperation. Around 60 participants from more than 20 countries gathered earlier...
The sensitivity of this film in the face of the brutality of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank created a safe space for an open and critical discussion with media and international law...
In her Master’s thesis, Whin Thiri Lwin reflected on the moral dilemmas faced by people working in Myanmar’s water sector, caught in between the political will of opposing the military regime, and the professional...
A documentary film speculating on climate migration along the Dutch-German border helps us to critically reflect on the notion of climate refugees and how we represent them in the media. A few weeks ago,...
Tatiana Acevedo-Guerrero, Lisa Bossenbroek, Irene Leonardelli, Margreet Zwarteveen, and Seema Kulkarni edited the newly published Routledge Handbook of Gender and Water Governance, which will be launched at IHE Delft on Friday 8 of November....
After graduating from IHE Delft MSc in Water Management and Governance, Helen Barbosa turned her thesis into a short film to promote a conversation on uneven water distributions in her country, Cabo Verde, and...
A reflection on how photos can help us to promote conversations and shared understandings on a long, diverse, and contested river like the Nile. #EverydayNile is a project involving photojournalists from Nile basin countries...
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...
The scientific blog of the Water Governance Chair Group at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education (The Netherlands). The blog presents news about our research, education and capacity development activities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It aims at promoting an open and critical space to discuss water governance issues.
The scientific blog of the Water Governance Chair Group at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education (The Netherlands). The blog presents news about our research, education and capacity development activities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It aims at promoting an open and critical space to discuss water governance issues.