ECAS 2009
3rd European Conference on African Studies
Leipzig, 4 to 7 June 2009

Panel 48: Waterscapes in Africa. The respacing of basins, markets and networks (Olivier Graefe / Detlef Mueller-Mahn)

Panel Organisers: Olivier Graefe / Detlef Mueller-Mahn

African waterscapes are characterized by a growing disequilibrium of supply and demand, of power and participation, and of redundancy and scarcity. They are presently undergoing critical changes at different scales: transbasin water transfers, privatization and withdrawal of private companies, reshaping of water distribution networks. This panel explores the highly contradictory transformations of waterscapes.

Accepted Abstracts

Adrift on the Nile - shifting waterscapes in the Nile River Basin
From the Nile to tap water : water management in Khartoum
 
Industrial waterscapes in South Africa - what implications for sustainable development?
 
Do smallfarmers waste water? The efficient producer discourse in Chokwe irrigationscheme, Mozambique
Implementing the Global Water Agenda: governing life through hydropolitics in eThekwini Municipality, South Africa