The Water Governance Blog at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
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...
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...
Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah has spent the last nine years in jail simply for voicing his opinion. His hunger strike ahead of the UN Climate Conference hosted by Egypt recall us that there...
Pension funds have a great influence on our future, but they often invest in projects affecting human rights or the environment. Following the example of other Dutch universities, Pieter van der Zaag, Leon Hermans,...
On February 22 we celebrated Nile Day by sharing on Instagram the first photos by a group of photojournalists re-picturing the river for the #EverydayNile project. We will continue in the next weeks to...
Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) – Research Coordination Network (RCN) is a community of scholars and practitioners who research and work in the interdisciplinary field of water insecurity. We join their statement in solidarity...
An unlikely Dutch-Bengal cooperation changes the way youngsters perceive people of the lowest caste in Bangladesh. An online television show already reached tens of thousands of people. A lot of them support the people...
The project “Transformations to Groundwater Sustainability” studies local grass-roots initiatives to protect and share groundwater in contexts of acute depletion and pollution. These practices are often spearheaded by marginal groups, thanks to a sense...
The development studies community of scholars in the Netherlands write to Sigrid Kaag, the Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, asking to consider the development cooperation aspects of COVID-19. Dear Minister Kaag,...
We’ve been in lockdown for 20 days. Fariba Adelkhah, researcher at the International Research Centre of Sciences Po Paris, has been in prison for 300 days in Iran. By posting her face on the...
The Sudanese revolution is quintessentially political, however water played an important role it, as shown in this commentary by Abeer R.Y. Abazeed. With this post, we also join the enthusiasm for the appointment of...
The Dutch government actively supports consultants, NGOs, water boards and universities to export Dutch water knowledge all around the world, from the United States to Mozambique or Vietnam. On the basis of her experience...
On Wednesday 20 March 2019 the Netherlands will vote to elect representatives in Dutch Water Boards. The unique element of these elections is that every adult resident within the borders of the water authority...
This is a collective post written by: Ana Elisa Cascão; Alvar Closas; Emanuele Fantini; Goitom Gebreleul; Tobias Ide; Guy Jobbins; Rémy Kinna; Flávia Rocha Loures; Bjørn-Oliver Magsig; Nate Matthews; Owen McIntyre; Filippo Menga; Naho...
“It matters what we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what knots knot knots, what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe...
