How does water governance shape regional politics in South America? And what happens when climate change, infrastructure, mining, agriculture, and local struggles for justice all converge around shared rivers, aquifers, and borderlands?

🎙️ In the second part of a two-part conversation, Dr. Ivo Ganchev speaks with Dr. Luis Paulo Batista da Silva (UFF), a geographer specializing in transboundary water governance, hydro-politics, and climate governance, to explore:

· Why regional fragmentation matters for water governance, and why sector-specific institutions often struggle with cross-cutting environmental problems

· How external actors — including China, the United States, NGOs, UN agencies, multilateral development banks, and international conservation organizations — influence water governance in Latin America