Bay of All Saints
This award-winning film examines the realities of urban poverty through the experiences of a community living in Brazil’s palafitas: shacks built over the water and supported by stilts.
This award-winning film examines the realities of urban poverty through the experiences of a community living in Brazil’s palafitas: shacks built over the water and supported by stilts.
This film examines how Mexico City—home to 22 million people—is trying to become water sustainable.
The focus of this paper is on identifying some of the key elements of water policy and governance presented at the 5th IWHA Conference ‘Pasts and Futures of Water.’ The paper also explores the challenges and opportunities facing the international community for living up to the principles of democratic water governance in a context of increasing global uncertainty.
This editorial note introduces the four major conference themes of the 5th International Water History Association (IWHA) Conference ‘Pasts and Futures of Water’ in June 2007: (i) water, health and sanitation; (ii) water, food and economy; (iii) water and the city; and (iv) water governance and policy.
This paper “Water and the City” by Tapio S. Katko, P.S. Juuti, and J. Tempelhoff introduces the topics of growth and development of urban spaces and their comprehensive water infrastructure.
Taylor and Chappells examine changing material cultures of energy in Britain and Canada.