This award-winning film examines the lives of 5000 people from 42 riverside communities a year after they have been displaced by the construction of the Irapé Dam and hydroelectric power plant in Brazil.
This film examines how Mexico City—home to 22 million people—is trying to become water sustainable.
This film examines the role of women in finding water in India, and how pollution impacts their communities.
Patagonia Rising gives voice to the Gauchos, a frontier people dependent on the Baker and Pascua river systems, who are caught in the struggle between Chile’s pro-dam business sector, clean energy proponents and the country’s rising energy demand.
The Canal de Marseille has allowed an improvement in the water supply in the city of Marseille, but also induced environmental issues in its first decades due to strong suspended sediment fluxes.
Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Island, New York, was the subject of a struggle over where to dispose of the waste of a city strapped for space. While the landfill was closed in 2001, the events of 9/11 and the need to clear the large amounts of rubble and human remains from the site of the Twin Towers attack turned Fresh Kills into hallowed ground, which posed new questions about the future of the site.
This article studies the aetiology underlying water management by exploring the social hermeneutics that determined its construction. It details how science, technology and political relations construct each other mutually, both producing and harnessing the scientific discourse on the environment.
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 article discusses how the understanding of the key concepts and the links between health, water, and sanitation has changed over time.
This article presents and discusses the papers presented at the 5th IWHA Conference under the theme ‘Water, Food and the Economy’.
