The Water Governance Blog at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
By Marcela Olivera and Stefano Archidiacono Twenty years after the Water War in Cochabamba (Bolivia), we reflect on “autogestión” of water as a practical and cultural dimension of the commons. A new piece for...
by Emanuele Fantini In Italy, the success of the referendum against water privatisation pushed many social movements to reframe their struggles – on labour, education, debt, land use…. – in the name of the...
by Andreas Bieler In his new book “Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe” Andreas Bieler analyses the struggles against water privatization in Europe since the early 1990s. In this post for the series...
By Irene Leonardelli, Gustavo Garcia and Emanuele Fantini In two webinars at the IASC 2021 Water Commons Virtual Conference (19-21 May 2021), past and future contributors reflected on the joint UndEnv-FLOWs series “Reimagining, remembering, and...
By Cleo Woelfle-Erskine The latest installment of the series “Reimagining, remembering, and reclaiming water: from extractivism to commoning” discusses how new eco-cultural imaginaries can emerge from alliances for river restoration between ranchers-conservationists, salmon scientists,...
By Jeroen Vos and Rutgerd Boelens The idea of Rooted Water Democracies points at the entanglements between community water management systems and transnational social movements. This is the latest post of the series “Reimagining, remembering,...
By Jenia Mukherjee and Amrita Sen Jenia Mukherjee and Amrita Sen reflect on multiple ways of knowing, experiencing and engaging with wastewater in East Kolkata Wetlands (India). This plurality offers original insights into a...
By Siti Maimunah and Sarah Agustiorini Increasing pressures from extractive industries on the Mahakam River in Kalimantan, the second largest river in Indonesia, risk an irreparable destruction of a commons. Yet residents are actively...
By Patrick Bresnihan The fourth essay of the series “Reimagining, remembering, and reclaiming water: from extractivism to commoning” co-organized with the Undisciplined Environments blog, looks at the most visible social mobilisations in Ireland in...
by Elliot Hurst The summer episode of the series “Reimagining, remembering, and reclaiming water: from extractivism to commoning” co-organized by the Undisciplined Environments and FLOWs blogs, explores swimming as a political act to reclaim...
by Emilie Dupuits The second post of the series “Reimagining, remembering, and reclaiming water: from extractivism to commoning” co-organized by the Undisciplined Environments and FLOWs blogs, discusses controversies and challenges in scaling up social...
By Kat Taylor, Sheri Longboat and Quentin Grafton Water governance frameworks need to harmonise with United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. This post is the first in the series “Reimagining, remembering,...
By Gustavo García-López, Irene Leonardelli and Emanuele Fantini A new open series co-organized by the Undisciplined Environments and FLOWs blogs looks at struggles over more just and ecological water presents and futures. Water connects...
In May IHE Delft hosted the workshop “Studying water as a transdisciplinary challenge: from environmental governance to knowledge and territorial politics”, co-organized with the Centre for Latin-American Research and Documentation (University of Amsterdam). Young...
