The Water Governance Blog at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
In a new article Vanessa M. Turri and Tommaso Vitale reflect on more than a decade of participatory experiments in water governance in Paris and Naples, asking what remains of civic participation once it...
Four memos to harness the transformative potential of transdisciplinary research to contribute to more sustainable and integrated land and water governance in the Dutch peatlands. In the Dutch peat meadow landscape, the ground is...
In her Master’s thesis, Whin Thiri Lwin reflected on the moral dilemmas faced by people working in Myanmar’s water sector, caught in between the political will of opposing the military regime, and the professional...
Tatiana Acevedo-Guerrero, Lisa Bossenbroek, Irene Leonardelli, Margreet Zwarteveen, and Seema Kulkarni edited the newly published Routledge Handbook of Gender and Water Governance, which will be launched at IHE Delft on Friday 8 of November....
In March 2024, Project Poldergeist released its sixth video: “Why was Sigmund Freud interested in the Afsluitdijk”, an animated psychogram of the Netherlands. A psychogram is a visual representation that captures the distinct qualities...
In this post co-published with ISS blog Bliss, Farhad Mukhtarov, Karen Vargas, Shahnoor Hasan, Jaap Evers, and Leon Hermans reflect on the panel discussion “Towards a Socially Inclusive Dutch Water Sector in the International...
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...
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...
How can we represent water through music and songs? Episode 4 of the podcast The House of Water is a sonic explorations of the UN 2023 Water Conference, featuring the voices, music, and stories...
Episode 3 of the podcast The House of Water was recorded at the event “The United Nations of Rivers, Deltas and Estuaries” during the UN 2023 Water Conference in New York. Artists and researchers...
The second episode of the podcast The House of Water is inspired by the photo exhibition “The Walk of Water”, displayed at the UN 2023 Water Conference. Photojournalists involved in #EverydayNile reflect on how...
A podcast made at and for the UN 2023 Water Conference, exploring how we can represent water at the intersection of arts, politics and science. Representatives from states, civil society, international organizations, academia are...
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...
In the third episode of the series “Caring matters in water governance”, Rozemarijn ter Horst, Bruno Bonté and Jean-Philippe Venot address critical questions about modelling that are seldom raised in scientific and professional debates...
Dona Geagea, Paula Zuluaga Guerra, and Nick Bourguignon present the provocations by a group of young researches that animated a discussion on critical transformations in water governance at the workshop “Caring matters in knowing...
