The Water Governance Blog at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
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...
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...
Yesterday, May 3rd, World Press Freedom Day was celebrated all around the world. Two special – and personal – mentions: the first one for my colleague Iginio Gagliardone (University of Wits, Johannesburg), lead researchers...
People in Cairo enjoy celebrating on the Nile after sunset, jumping on glittering boats with loudspeakers full volume and sailing on the river crossing the city center. Episode 3 of the podcast “The sources...
An old adage says “Whoever drinks from the Nile will always return to it”. That’s why – after last year’s success – on February 10 we are going to have another “Saturday on the...
The Nile Water Lab features a new podcast on media, science and water diplomacy: The Sources of the Nile. In the past, searching for the sources of the Nile was a major geopolitical venture...
At the end of October I attended the Nile Basin Development Forum (NBDF) in Kigali, the bi-annual event organised by the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) bringing together water professionals, policy makers, researchers, international institutions, NGOs,...
Is high modernism striking back in Ethiopia? In the last years, under the auspices of the developmental state, the Ethiopian government has embarked in an ambitious program of hydropower and irrigation development to sustain...
Which role do media and science communication play in controversies over transboundary waters? This is one of the research questions addressed by the project “Open Water Diplomacy. Media, science and transboundary cooperation in the...
