The Water Governance Blog at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
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...
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...
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...
Last week the film festival Let’s talk about water in Delft began with a journey on the Nile. We watched the comedy “Abay vs. Vegas” (2011) by Ethiopian film director Theodros Teshome that anticipated...
