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…
REVOLUTIONS ON THE NILE
CALL FOR PAPERS: WATER AND SANITATION SYMPOSIUM 2011
The STEPS Centre’s Water and Sanitation Symposium on 22-23 March is entitled “Some for All? Pathways and Politics in Water and Sanitation since New Delhi, 1990”. We’ll be looking at…
4 BIG CHALLENGES FOR WATER AND SANITATION
Photo: Map of sanitation in Ndeke village, Zambia, from the CLTS Flickr photostreamWe live in uncertain times. If you’re looking for something that embodies the changing and conflicting forces of…
SHIT AND CITIZENSHIP
In the last 15 years, the way sanitation is treated in Brazil has changed dramatically. The picture of poor investment and danger to public health is being replaced by climbing…
STEPS CONFERENCE 2010: WATER, SUSTAINABILITY AND INTELLECTUAL JUDO
by Katharina Welle, DPhil student Water is a vital piece in the sustainability jigsaw. It’s also a resource that requires careful management. In the final plenary session at the STEPS…
SHIT HAPPENS: SANITATION AND DEVELOPMENT
The British Medical Journal’s podcast this week features Lyla Mehta, STEPS Centre Water and Sanitation convenor, talking about sanitation and the UN MDGs. This week, to steal a line from…
WHOSE KNOWLEDGE COUNTS AT WORLD WATER WEEK 2010?
by Timothy Karpouzoglou, research student, SPRU World Water Week (WWW) 2010 is over, leaving me with some questions. Is WWW really about “opening up” or about “closing down” the debate…
WORLD WATER WEEK: CONTROVERSY AND CONTRASTS
By Lyla Mehta, STEPS Centre Water and Sanitation convenor It’s my fourth day at World Water Week, the annual mecca for policy-makers and players from the World Water Council, the…
WORLD WATER WEEK: THE SAME OLD STUFF?
by Jeremy Allouche, STEPS Centre Research Fellow Here’s our first blog from World Water Week – some call it ‘the pilgrimage of water’. Well… the price of the pilgrimage (about…
STEPS AT WORLD WATER WEEK
We’re at World Water Week in Stockholm this week. Our session, Liquid Dynamics II: Linking Quality and Access for Pro-poor Sustainability is at 12.45pm on Wednesday. In the session, we’ll…