The Water Governance Blog at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
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 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...
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...
How can we represent water through music and songs? Episode 4 of the podcast The House of Water is a sonic explorations of the UN 2023 Water Conference, featuring the voices, music, and stories...
Episode 3 of the podcast The House of Water was recorded at the event “The United Nations of Rivers, Deltas and Estuaries” during the UN 2023 Water Conference in New York. Artists and researchers...
The second episode of the podcast The House of Water is inspired by the photo exhibition “The Walk of Water”, displayed at the UN 2023 Water Conference. Photojournalists involved in #EverydayNile reflect on how...
A podcast made at and for the UN 2023 Water Conference, exploring how we can represent water at the intersection of arts, politics and science. Representatives from states, civil society, international organizations, academia are...
Three weeks ago, IHE Delft and the festival Movies that matter organized the screening of “Above water”, a documentary on climate changes implications for access to water in a small village in Niger. The...
The theme of World Water Day 2022 is “Groundwater, making the invisible visible”. Three networks join forces in an online seminar on March 22 to discuss ” Why visibility may not improve governability. Critical...
The project “Science communication for water diplomacy in the Brahmaputra” launched a photostory exhibition on the mighty river. Arundhati Deka and Isha Thakur offer a glimpse of the plurality of attachments, concerns and hopes reflected...
The EADI ISS 2021 Conference on “Solidarity, Peace and Social Justice” will take place online from the 5th to the 8th of July. IHE Delft Water Governance Department contributes by hosting two workshops and...
This year we celebrate Nile Day in front of the Egyptian Taffeh Temple in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden. By enjoying poetry, music and stories inspired by the river we will reflect on...
On the 5th of December, the Water, Peace & Security (WPS) Partnership launches its Global Early Warning Tool. Susanne Schmeier, Emilie Broek, Rolien Sasse, Charles Iceland, Rozemarijn ter Horst, and Karen Meijer discuss how...
The Power of Representation & the Representation of Power in Water Conflict and Cooperation’ was the theme of the 10th hydro-hegemony conference (The Hague 4-5 October 2019). In this collective post the conference organizers...
