The Water Governance Blog at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Jakarta piped water system is almost a hundred years old. Nila Ardhianie and Marie Belland argue that it has not changed much since the colonial times, carrying a legacy of social inequality and ecological...
Decentralized or communal water sources are officially labelled as “alternative”, but often represent the only affordable option for many urban residents. These systems require similar attention as centralised water provision, argues the SMALL research...
Semarang, one of the largest city in Indonesia, is currently hit by the worst flood of the last ten years. The response by the Government relies on giant flood infrastructure. In this collective piece...
In low income areas in African cities, where the poor cannot afford to pay the bill, water is often supplied by informal providers. Focusing on a study case in Kenya, a new article by...
As the Sustainable Development Goals call for universal access to drinking water, Akosua Boakye points at how water utilities in the cities of the Global South are caught in between the neo-liberal principles of...
A new article by Bosman Batubara, Michelle Kooy and Margreet Zwarteveen, published in the journal Antipode, analyses the processes of uneven urbanisation by looking at flood infrastructure in Jakarta and unveiling its political dimension....
An uncomfortable reflection on my positionality: confronting my own ‘northern’ theorization of geographies of differentiated access to water in Jakarta. Good research often starts with discovering ‘productive paradoxes’. That is, the reality we observe...
