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...
IHE Delft short course participant Andrea Beck has published an article about Water Operator Partnerships (WOPs) in the journal WIREs Water. Relating to the work of the BEWOP project, her analysis draws on a...
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...
Mireia Tutusaus and Klaas Schwartz edited a special issue on “Water Services in small towns in developing countries” in the journal Water Policy. They highlight how water services management on the ground diverges from...
In 2017 we made great progress with the SMALL project. At the beginning of the year we asked ourselves: how do the current arrangements for accessing water and sanitation services in SMALL towns actually...
This blog is a collaboration between Cecilia Alda Vida, Maria Rusca, Margreet Zwarteveen, Klaas Schwartz and Nicky Pouw to introduce their publication Occupational genders and gendered occupations: the case of water provisioning in Maputo,...
This blog is based on the publication by Maria Rusca, Akosua Sarpong Boakye-Ansah, Alex Loftus, Giuliana Ferrero, Pieter van der Zaag, “An interdisciplinary political ecology of drinking water quality. Exploring socio-ecological inequalities in Lilongwe’s...
New publication on everyday practices of sanitation and hygiene in the low-income areas of Lilongwe, Malawi Hygiene matters to people! This post has been written by Maria Rusca, Cecilia Alda-Vidal and Nienke Kral ...
“And now, I give the word to my M.D. (Managing Director)”, and with that off-the-cuff acronym, shortened title of power, the players embodied their roles and the game was on. The Operational Manager of...
