In this thesis, three moments of (drinking) water infrastructuring connected to the Elbaue-Ostharz long-distance water network are described.
This thesis examines the negotiation of groundwater futures in the Mansfeld-Südharz district in Germany, initiated by the junior research group regulate. As part of the research, qualitative, guideline based interviews were conducted with stakeholders in groundwater management in Mansfeld-Südharz and with researchers from regulate.
The research group has investigated how increasing water demand can be met with the help of sustainable water management strategy.
Dženeta will join the conference “Making and Doing Transformations” in Amsterdam from July 16th to July 19th, organized by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST). She will present major findings of her PhD and ‘regulate’ project in two talks.
More transfers of water over long-distances are prepared across Germany to ensure drinking water supply security in times of droughts and peak drinking water demands on hot summer days. Originally, such transfers were meant as an exception for e.g. metropolitan areas with high industrial and public water demand and unfavourable local water resources. Today, already 20% of Germans are supplied with water imported from other administrative areas or hydrological basins.
Our regulate researcher Dženeta Hodžić was interviewed by igrac in light of world toilet day 2023. Read the full article entitled “Plitvice, natural treasure becomes victim of its own success”.
The “German Congress for Geography (DKG)” took place in Frankfurt am Main, September 19-23. Almost the entire regulate-team participated with various contributions. A particular highlight was the lightning session “Groundwater Geographies” chaired by the regulate-team.
Our colleagues David Kuhn, Fanny Frick-Trzebitzky et al. recently published a new ISOE discussion paper on the conceptualisation of the non-human, for example animals, forests or water, in the context of environmental conflicts.
Drawing from research on municipal water supply in Accra (Ghana) and Mansfeld-Südharz (Germany),
Fanny Frick-Trzebitzky et al. demonstrate the usefulness of bricolage thinking for a more grounded and power-sensitive analysis of adaptive water governance.
We congratulate one of regulate’s master students, Sofia Redeker, for receiving the Frankfurt Prize for Environment and Sustainability 2023.
