The Water Governance Blog at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Mohsen Nagheeby, Alistair Rieu-Clarke, Stephen McCaffrey, Raya Marina Stephan; Ana Elisa Cascão; Owen McIntyre, Alan Nicol, Alex Meland, Hussam Hussein, Francesca de Châtel, Rawia Tawfik, Cara Flowers, Emanuele Fantini, Fuad Bateh. This might be...
Water insecurity, like climate change, impacts the livelihood of many, particularly in drought prone countries like Iraq. However, we should avoid simplistic and mono-causal representations like “climate change refuges”, that hide the complexity of...
Jonatan Godinez Madrigal joined IHE Delft Water Governance Department a few months ago and in April successfully defended his PhD! Building on his experience in Zapotillo (Mexico) he reflects on why and how researchers...
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...
By Gustavo García-López, Irene Leonardelli and Emanuele Fantini A new open series co-organized by the Undisciplined Environments and FLOWs blogs looks at struggles over more just and ecological water presents and futures. Water connects...
The independence of Central Asian republics in 1991 had many consequences for water arrangements at transboundary, national and local levels. In a new article, Jenniver Sehring provides a critical review of the research on...
On the 5th of December, the Water, Peace & Security (WPS) Partnership launches its Global Early Warning Tool. Susanne Schmeier, Emilie Broek, Rolien Sasse, Charles Iceland, Rozemarijn ter Horst, and Karen Meijer discuss how...
The Power of Representation & the Representation of Power in Water Conflict and Cooperation’ was the theme of the 10th hydro-hegemony conference (The Hague 4-5 October 2019). In this collective post the conference organizers...
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...
Tatiana Acevedo Guerrero (IHE lecturer and researcher in the Politics of Sanitation and Wastewater Governance), was invited to speak at the opening of the art exhibition “Delta” at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. She offered...
A new article by Mohsen Nagheeby (IHE alumnus and PhD candidate at Northumbria University) and Jeroen Warner (Wageningen University) analyses geopolitics in the Harirud River Basin, shared by Afghanistan, Iran and Turkmenistan. The paper...
Susanne Schmeier (IHE Delft), Chris Baker (Wetlands International), Judith Blauw (Deltares), Charles Iceland (World Resources Institute), Karen Meijer (Deltares) and Rolien Sasse (independent consultant) explain that the link between water and conflict is never...
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...
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 &...
