Featuring IHE Delft staff

In this first episode of TheWaterChannel podcast, we discuss how the #COVID19 pandemic affected smallholder farmers. We speak to a group of researchers who studied the pandemic’s impact on smallholder farmers in India, Algeria, and Morocco: Irene Leonardelli (IHE Delft, The Netherlands), Lisa Bossenbroek (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germanya), Hind Ftouhi (Hassan IIInstitute of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine, Morocco), Sneha Bhat (SOPPECOM, India), and Meriem F. Hamamouche (Bureau d'Etudes, Consulting dans le domaine Agricole).

The women, the land, & the virus: COVID19 impact on smallholder farmers

In 2015, Chennai was hit by a major flood, considered to be the worst flood to hit that part of the world in a century. The initial narratives around the flood painted it as an act of nature, an inevitable effect of Climate Change. In months that followed, a federal investigation declared that the flood was a man-made disaster created out of bad water management, lack of early warning, and highly politicized aid and relief efforts. 
In this podcast, author Krupa GE recounts the story of chronicling all that in her acclaimed book 'Rivers Remember.' https://krupage.com/

Rivers Remember: How the 2015 floods changed Chennai

Small Island Development States (SIDS) appear on the map as little dots of green in vast stretches of blue. In popular culture, they take turns appearing as idyllic holiday destinations... and as tiny landmasses always on the verge of drowning under rising sea level.
Just how exposed are these island nations to climate change effects? What makes them extra vulnerable? How are they dealing with this threat? We speak to IHE Delft's Erik de Ruiter van Steveninck.
(If you are from a Small Island Developing State--SIDS--here is a fellowship opportunity for you to study water management at IHE Delft: https://www.un-ihe.org/sids-fellowships-1 )

Small islands in big oceans

'Deltas' are landmasses formed out of sediments deposited by rivers at their mouth. Throughout human history, deltas have been cradles of important ports, great cities, key industry, and agriculture. 
Deltas are fragile ecosystems; managing them demands much diligence and expertise. Over centuries, The Netherlands has built a reputation of being a key repository of such expertise. It has gone out into the world and offered this expertise to other delta countries; this has been a cornerstone of its diplomacy, trade, and aid. 
In this episode, Delta management expert Shanoor Hasan discusses what constitutes 'Brand Netherlands' when it comes to Delta management, and makes a case as to how/why it needs to change.

Netherlands: Delta Leader to Delta Friend?

Is it possible to predict conflict? That's what the Water, Peace and Security Partnership's machine learning early warning tool sets out to do. Four times a year the predictions are analyzed and turned into a quarterly report.

In this second WPS quarterly report podcast we'll look at the countries most at risk of conflict thanks to the fall out of the war in Ukraine, which has led to much higher fuel and food prices, along with serious predicted future food supply problems. The guest for this podcast is Susanne Schmeier, Associate Professor in Water Law and Diplomacy at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, one of the WPS partners, and the producer and presenter is Nicholas Walton of WRI.

Big Ideas Into Action #50: Water Peace and Security Quarterly Update 2

Monitoring and managing of water resources is increasingly being done remotely-- using data collected from satellites and drones . Ground level monitoring is often done in ways that involves generation, consolidation, and analysis of vast amounts of data. 
What goes on behind this technology? To what extent does all this technology, all this data reach people doing water management on the ground? And how should we treat the vast amounts of data being generated about natural resources that impact us all— who owns it? Who should have access to it? What way of managing it would stimulate most innovation?

Managing Water with Data: Satellites, Remote Sensing, and the value chain of Open Data

IHE's Micha Werner talks to Long Hoang about mediating a process wherein scientists and shapers of policy around groundwater in Colombia came together to inform each others' work to a greater extent. Fore more information about the process, please see the website https://sites.google.com/view/e4p-colombia/inicio

Science, Policy & Groundwater in Colombia

The iconic Nile river flows through several countries who often stake competing claims to its waters. IHE-Delft's Emanuele Fantini discusses a project shows that the key to resolving disputes may lie in bringing together scientists, journalists, & artists in a way that dilutes the imperative to look at the the Nile from the perspective of nation-states

Nile diplomacy and the Nation-trap

We discuss with IHE Delft's Susanne Schmeier the interlinkages between Water and Peace, and whether conflict can be forecast using data and machine learning

Water, Peace, and Security

Janez Susnik (IHE Delft) discusses  ways to increase the self-reliance and sustainability of cities in the global South with regard to water supply by relieving pressure on traditional sources through the implementation of alternative water systems (for example rainwater harvesting, wastewater reuse, desalination).

Securing water for cities in the global south

A podcast on interdisciplinarity in water research. In this episode we talk to Gretchen Gettel, Associate Professor of Aquatic Biogeochemistry at IHE Delft, and to her former MSc student in Environmental Science, Collins Muhadia, about how to study human-nature interactions from an interdisciplinary perspective in a Master thesis.

The Digital Club - Episode 2 - Interdisciplinarity to study water, nature and society

Prof. András Szöllösi-Nagy is one of the most recognised names in international water management, in that over the past 40 years he has been instrumental in the shaping both institutions and approaches to freshwater management.

Prior to his 2009-2014 appointment in Delft as rector of UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, he was director of the Division of Water, secretary of the International Hydrological Programme, and deputy director general of the natural sciences sector of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). While at UNESCO, Szöllösi-Nagy developed the organization’s response capacities in the area of freshwater, including launching the World Water Assessment Program (WWAP) and the Potential Conflict to Cooperation Potential (PCCP) program that deals with conflict prevention and resolution concerning international waters. In 2003, Szöllösi-Nagy was instrumental in establishing the new UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education and was a key player in the integration of the institute’s education and research programs in UNESCO.

Dr. Szollosi-Nagy is a founding member of the World Water Council (WWC) where he served six terms as an elected member of the Board of Governors. Currently, he is a professor of Sustainable Water Management at the National University of Public Service in Hungary and serves as Chair of the Intergovernmental Council of IHP.

Visit http://www.kini.org.au for more interviews with leading water practitioners.

Hydrodiplomacy and Addressing Water Security: Lessons from 40 years of Experience

Climate change is disrupting weather patterns and leading to extreme weather events, such as wild fires, all around the world. Climate-related natural disasters also cause unpredictable water availability, exacerbate existing water scarcities and contaminate established water supplies. In some situations, scarce and valuable fresh water has contributed to conflicts by being a causal factor, target, tool, or weapon. In this episode, we explore what the effects of climate change means for water security around the world and talk to four guests about the weaponization of water, water scarcity, international conflicts over water, and more.

Guests: Scott Moore (Director, Penn Global China Program), Jasdeep Randhawa (International lawyer and policy specialist, currently working in the adaptation team at the United Nations Climate Change agency), Susanne Schmeier (Associate professor, IHE Delft), Michelle Toxopeus (Legal researcher, Helen Suzman Foundation).

What Does Climate Change Mean for Water Security?

Journalists have a crucial role to play in creating inspirational and transformative narratives relating to the world’s complex water conflicts, specialists say in the first episode of a three-part podcast series on water conflict and cooperation. 

In this episode, special guests discuss their research on the role of the media in water diplomacy, which features in a new expert guide for journalists and policymakers launched by the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education.

Water conflicts, science and the media

Hello and welcome to the 'Transformations to Groundwater Sustainability' Podcast. Every month, we will share narratives of knowing, accessing and sharing groundwater from different perspectives and places around the globe. The podcast is hosted by Muna Dajani (Lancaster University) and Cristian Olmos (University of Amsterdam), and today's episode is a conversation about the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on small-scale agriculture in Algeria, India and Morocco. Our guests are Farah Hamamouche (CIRAD, France), Hind Ftouhi (The Agronomic and Veterinary Institute Hassan II, Morocco), Irene Leonardelli (IHE Delft), Lisa Bossenbroek (University Koblenz-Landau) and Sneha Bhat (SOPPECOM). In this episode, we discuss the challenges of doing feminist research during a pandemic, aiming to offer listeners something more than an academic interview. We hope you enjoy the conversation.
www.t2sgroundwater.org