Above water, about movies
Three weeks ago, IHE Delft and the festival Movies that matter organized the screening of “Above water”, a documentary on climate changes implications for access to water in a small village in Niger. The...
Three weeks ago, IHE Delft and the festival Movies that matter organized the screening of “Above water”, a documentary on climate changes implications for access to water in a small village in Niger. The...
The theme of World Water Day 2022 is “Groundwater, making the invisible visible”. Three networks join forces in an online seminar on March 22 to discuss ” Why visibility may not improve governability. Critical...
In this new post of the series “(En)Gendering water diplomacy” Isaac Barnes analyses the connection between land tenure, illegal mining, water quality and lack of women voice. He calls for more investments in education...
by Emanuele Fantini In Italy, the success of the referendum against water privatisation pushed many social movements to reframe their struggles – on labour, education, debt, land use…. – in the name of the...
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...
On September 29 and 30, IHE Delft hosted the workshop “(En)Gendering Transboundary Water Governance: Feminist Perspectives on Water Conflict and Cooperation.” A variety of presentations and discussions unpacked the gendered dynamics of water diplomacy...
By Kat Taylor, Sheri Longboat and Quentin Grafton Water governance frameworks need to harmonise with United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. This post is the first in the series “Reimagining, remembering,...
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...
In October IHE Delft welcomed a new batch of MSc students. To discover their motivations and aspirations we asked them to introduce us to their heroines and heroes. This was the third time that...
Our MSc students in Water Governance and Management produced three podcasts to present the findings of the fieldtrip in Alentejo (Portugal). The first transmission of the once-famous MTV channel was a video-song by a...
The Dutch government actively supports consultants, NGOs, water boards and universities to export Dutch water knowledge all around the world, from the United States to Mozambique or Vietnam. On the basis of her experience...
In May IHE Delft hosted the workshop “Studying water as a transdisciplinary challenge: from environmental governance to knowledge and territorial politics”, co-organized with the Centre for Latin-American Research and Documentation (University of Amsterdam). Young...
As the research phase of IHE Delft MSc program in Water Management and Governance kicks off, we share the first outcomes of an action research on interdisciplinarity involving the students that just graduated and...
A recent global trend acknowledges that rivers have legal personality and rights. But who can speak for the river? And how? In this video, Maitreyi, Alyssa, Aminjon, Pablo, Iqbal, and Folasade, MSc students in...