The Water Governance Blog at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Ethno-graphy integrates traditional ethnographic methods with artistic and visual techniques. Jenia Mukherjee and Shreyashi Bhattacharya tell how they used this methodology with students and practitioners to promote new understandings of and relations with the...
Sumit Vij, Timos Karpouzoglou, and Vishal Narain challenge the myth of the formal (state controlled) water as ‘piped’ water versus the informal (non-state) water as ‘non-piped’. Their ethnographic work illustrates how these two water...
Care is both a concept and an attitude. Therefore, the fourth episode of the series “Caring in water governance” – written by Christelle Gramaglia, Andres Verzijl, Tavengwa Chitata, Hajar Choukrani, Caroline Lejars, and Arianna...
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...
While most people in the Netherlands feel relieved because the measures against the pandemic are gently being relaxed and they can enjoy drinking beer together again, the majority of the world’s population faces a...
“Pluralising water science” was again the theme of the first week of IHE Delft MSc academic programs. In his keynote talk Amitangshu Acharya questioned the colonial legacy influencing the contemporary season of dam constructions...
Would “building” toilets solve the issues surrounding insufficient sanitation infrastructure? During our Water Governance module, we were privileged to get an opportunity to produce a ten minutes documentary for the 2019 Water Governance Documentary Festival...
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...
This post is authored by Sumit Vij (Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands), and Anamika Barua (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India). Anamika is part of the Universities’ Partnership for Water Cooperation &...
This blog post is a collaboration between Anjali – Rachana – Rajni – Sharda – Sonia – Tatiana. In Delhi, as in various cities of India and the Global South, many middle and upper-class...
