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Region: South-East Asia

Groundwater and the political between the drops: Urban clean water shortage in Java, Indonesia

The big picture of water scarcity in Java, Indonesia provides ample graphs and dramatic pictures of decreasing water quality and trends of more frequent seasonal droughts. This concern has been severe enough for Java to be classified as a region of water shortage since the 1980s in the ‘Global Water Scarcity Atlas’

Two stories of ‘not privatization’ in urban water supply in Indonesia and India

Snapshots of transitions in water supply in Jakarta and Hubballi-Dharwad

Implementation realities of two irrigation modernization projects in India and Indonesia

Accounts of the Gondi irrigation project in Karnataka and SS Macan in West Java

Immaterial infrastructures in the Mekong Region’s transboundary rivers

This project explores the unbuilt, unseen, and temporal aspects of hydraulic infrastructure development in transboundary rivers and the hydropolitical tensions that these enhance.

This project has been initiated by NEWAVE a project pointing the way forward in the global debate about water governance.
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 861509.

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