We were lucky to have some big names in water & sanitation at our Water & Sanitation Symposium last week. We asked them what the biggest barriers were for water…
VIDEO: WATER & SANITATION FOR ALL?
DIVERSITY, DISTRIBUTION AND DEVELOPMENT THROUGH KNOWLEDGE, NETWORKS AND NATIONS
By Melissa Leach, STEPS Centre director A new report by the Royal Society surveys the global scientific landscape in 2011, noting the shift to an increasingly multipolar world underpinned by…
WATER & SANITATION FOR ALL IS ELUSIVE, BUT ACHIEVABLE
Here’s another guest post on water and sanitation, on the eve of our Symposium on that subject. Barbara Frost is Chief Executive of Water Aid, a charity dedicated to the…
RETHINKING WATER
Our second guest blog for the STEPS Water Symposium is by Gourisankar Ghosh. Gourisankar is the CEO of FXB India Suraksha, a non profit company working for the vulnerable children…
FILM: “WATER AND JUSTICE” OUT NOW
Our new film, “Water and Justice: Peri-urban pathways in Delhi”, tells the story of three people and their relationship with water in the towns and villages on the edge of…
THINKING OUT OF THE WATER BOX
We’re delighted to feature this guest post by Erik Swyngedouw, Professor of Geography at the University of Manchester. This is the first of a series of blog posts by speakers…
JAPAN: NEGLECTED NUCLEAR LESSONS
Photo: Screen capture from video of an explosion at the Fukushima Daichi plant in Japan (Reuters) By Andy Stirling, STEPS Centre co-director What lessons can be learned from the tragic…
“Limits to Growth Forum”, Sussex, 11 March 2011
The ‘Limits to Growth Forum’ brought together a series of expert speakers to address the inherent problems of our current economic system, and explore the possible alternatives for ‘beyond growth’…
SCIENCE & INTOLERANCE
John Beddington, the UK Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor, said earlier this month that scientists should be “grossly intolerant” towards “pseudoscience” and suggested that the media gives too much space to…
REVOLUTIONS ON THE NILE
By Alan Nicol, IDS and Ana Cascão, Stockholm International Water Institute Today is official Nile Day in the basin and celebrations will be taking place in Goma, Democratic Republic of…