IHE Delft 💧 Alumni Online Seminar: Sharing our Water: Water justice issues in the Anthropocene
Channel: IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Date: 13/12/2017

In the context of the Anthropocene, the newest geological era in the history of the Earth, there is limited water for human use and human use must stay within ecosystemic limits. Such water use needs to be equitably shared between uses and users.

However, past to present patterns of water ownership, water pricing and financialization, water pollution and the impacts of climate change are such that they exacerbate water-related injustices at local through to global level. If these patterns continue into the future, water will have become completely privatized and/or securitized and water pricing will reach monopoly levels; while the impacts of water pollution and climate change will be externalized.

This presentation illustrates this story through examples of water conflicts from local through to global level (e.g. from transboundary water disputes on the Nile vs Mekong to the role of Coca-Cola in India and Nestle in the US).

The webinar 'Sharing our Water: Water justice issues in the Anthropocene' by Professor Joyeeta Gupta was held on 24 November 2016. It is part of the 'IHE Delft Online Seminars for Alumni and Partners' series. IHE Delft organizes the series in cooperation with TheWaterChannel. They are free and open to anyone to follow.

About the Speaker
Joyeeta Gupta is IHE Delft's Professor of Law and Policy in Water Resources and Environment as well as Professor of Environment and Development in the Global South at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research of the University of Amsterdam. She is also a member of the Amsterdam Global Change Institute.
https://www.un-ihe.org/joyeeta-gupta

She is editor-in-chief of International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics (IF 2.0) and is on the editorial board of journals like Carbon and Law Review, International Journal on Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Policy, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Catalan Environmental Law Journal, Review of European Community and International Environmental Law and the new International Journal of Water Governance.

She was and continues to be, lead author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which recently shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore and of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment which won the Zaved Second Prize. She has published extensively. She is on the scientific steering committees of many different international programmes including the Global Water Systems Project and Earth System Governance.