Access to Water and Water for Production
This PhD course will address issues of water governance, water for production, and access to water, using an interdisciplinary approach
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Course leaders
Ronald Semyalo, Makerere University
Tore Sætersdal, University of Bergen
Lecturers
Dr Ronald Semyalo, Makerere University - Access to Safe Water
Dr Tore Sætersdal, University of Bergen - Water Governance + Water and the SDGs
Dr Dauda Batega, Makerere University - Water for Production - Uganda case
Professor Fredrick Muyodi, Makerere University - Water and the SDGs - Lake Victoria
Dr Firehiwot Sitenyu, Addis Ababa University - Water Governance
Course description
This course addresses SDG 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. We address the challenges of meeting this goal amidst climate change and the growing gap between competing water demands and dwindling water resources. The course will address issues of water governance, water for production, and access to water, using an interdisciplinary approach.
This course is interdisciplinary and deals with how to understand the Water-Food nexus and how to manage available water resources in a sustainable way. This is a major and relevant issue in all countries, rich or poor. We seek candidates from all disciplines interested in water and food security.
The course will present and analyse specific case studies on how different water-society relations have impacted and impact both development and geopolitics, and how development paths and geopolitical relations have impacted water control.
The course will give the PhD candidates insight into, and knowledge of, relevant theoretical and historical literature on how to analyse the interconnections and relations between ecology and society, and more specifically, between water, water management and societal development. It will address SDG 6 and its targets as well as relations with the whole Agenda 2030. It will include perspectives from various disciplines, like social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering.
Learning outcomes
Knowledge - be able to:
- identify key elements of the water and food nexus, and how these relate to the Sustainable Development agenda
- describe the trade-offs and synergies between the SDGs (and targets) most relevant to the water and sanitation agenda
- explain main issues of water governance, water sustainability and water for production.
Skills - be able to:
- describe the main challenges for sustainable water systems
- identify different stakeholders and recognize their motivations
- apply an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of water - food systems.
General competence - be able to:
- find, navigate, and connect scientific literature and other forms of knowledge
- participate constructively in debates and discussions
- identify and separate between scientific knowledge, values, and ideologies