New book: Why so few women in water leadership?
The leaders and staff of river basin organizations that regulate water in many of the more than 300 transboundary river basins in the world tend to be men. Why are there so few women?...
The leaders and staff of river basin organizations that regulate water in many of the more than 300 transboundary river basins in the world tend to be men. Why are there so few women?...
A new article by Yeshiwas Degu Belay, Emanuele Fantini, and Iginio Gagliardone explores Ethiopian media narratives on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, showing their stunning continuity across different governments, political leaders, and agendas. The...
In a new article on the Journal of Science Communication, Emanuele Fantini and Emilie Buist reflect on what they learnt by making the podcast The Sources of the Nile, and sketch a “podcast pathway”...
This year we missed a lot: fieldwork, classrooms… but we also managed to write unexpected stories. In one of them, research and education, humans and non humans, get all entangled with a bit of...
Susanne Schmeier and Anoulak Kittikhoun present their new edited volume on international river basin organisations. The book is the result of conversations and collaborations between researchers and decision-makers that look at different river basins...
A new article reflects on the experience of IHE Delft summer course “Visual methods for water communication”. Video making is a collective effort through which students can learn not only communication skills but also...
The independence of Central Asian republics in 1991 had many consequences for water arrangements at transboundary, national and local levels. In a new article, Jenniver Sehring provides a critical review of the research on...
Simon Richter (University of Pennsylvania) joins the debate on exporting and translating Dutch water knowledge in other countries, with a reflection on his experience in Semarang (Indonesia) inspired by an article on Dutch Delta...
In low income areas in African cities, where the poor cannot afford to pay the bill, water is often supplied by informal providers. Focusing on a study case in Kenya, a new article by...
A new article by Susanne Schmeier and Zaki Shubber discusses the role of river basin organisations in water diplomacy. A better understanding of the legal nature of these organisations is key to design institutions...
A new article by Mohsen Nagheeby (IHE alumnus and PhD candidate at Northumbria University) and Jeroen Warner (Wageningen University) analyses geopolitics in the Harirud River Basin, shared by Afghanistan, Iran and Turkmenistan. The paper...
IHE Delft short course participant Andrea Beck has published an article about Water Operator Partnerships (WOPs) in the journal WIREs Water. Relating to the work of the BEWOP project, her analysis draws on a...
Jaap Evers and Assela Pathirana edited a special issue on Adaptation to Climate Change in the Mekong River Basin in the journal Climatic Change. The special issue features research from multiple scientific disciplines (hydrology,...
Mireia Tutusaus and Klaas Schwartz edited a special issue on “Water Services in small towns in developing countries” in the journal Water Policy. They highlight how water services management on the ground diverges from...
A new article by Bosman Batubara, Michelle Kooy and Margreet Zwarteveen, published in the journal Antipode, analyses the processes of uneven urbanisation by looking at flood infrastructure in Jakarta and unveiling its political dimension....