The Water Governance Blog at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
A reflection on how photos can help us to promote conversations and shared understandings on a long, diverse, and contested river like the Nile. #EverydayNile is a project involving photojournalists from Nile basin countries...
In June we organised a workshop in Cairo to kick off the second round of co-production fellowships, pairing journalists and researchers from Nile countries to work together at water science communication projects. This innovative...
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...
The fourth micro-essay of a series inspired by the photos of #EverydayNile, drawing connections among people, places, waters, and stories along the Nile river. Jerrycans are a commonplace in pictures about water in Africa....
The third of a micro-essay series inspired by the photos of #EverydayNile, drawing connections among people, places, waters, and stories along the Nile river. The first experiment of #EverydayNile took place in February 2019...
The second of a micro-essay series inspired by the photos of #EverydayNile, drawing connections among people, places, waters, and stories along the Nile river. Three figures are turning their back to the camera, walking...
This is the first of a micro-essay series inspired by the photos of #EverydayNile to draw connections among people, places, waters, and stories along the Nile river. In his newsletter on African photography “Tender...
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”...
On February 22 we celebrated Nile Day by sharing on Instagram the first photos by a group of photojournalists re-picturing the river for the #EverydayNile project. We will continue in the next weeks to...
This year we celebrate Nile Day in front of the Egyptian Taffeh Temple in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden. By enjoying poetry, music and stories inspired by the river we will reflect on...
The Sudanese revolution is quintessentially political, however water played an important role it, as shown in this commentary by Abeer R.Y. Abazeed. With this post, we also join the enthusiasm for the appointment of...
This year the Nile Basin Initiative celebrates its 20th anniversary. We wish happy birthday to the river and its people with a special episode of the podcast The sources of the Nile, announcing also...
From February 12 to 16, IHE Delft will host the workshop “Media, science and water: Telling the story of the Nile” bringing together journalists, photographers and researchers from different Nile basin countries to practice...
The new episode of the podcast “The sources of the Nile” features a dialogue between researchers from different disciplines, three journalists, a writer and a water expert, on who should speak for the Nile...
