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Households in the urban periphery access water through complex systems of formal and informal water technologies, practices, institutions, and organizational forms.
The Global Ethnohydrology Study is a transdisciplinary multi-year, multi-site program of research that examines the range of variation in local ecological knowledge of water issues, also known as “ethnohydrology.”
We developed the Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) study to develop a tool to measure water insecurity at the the household level.
This project is funded by Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a charitable foundation helping to protect life and property by supporting engineering-related education, public engagement and the application of research.
HWISE-RCN is a community of scholars and practitioners who research and work in the interdisciplinary field of water insecurity. The RCN is an NSF-funded initiative (2018-2023) dedicated to building a community of practice that fosters key analytics and theoretical advances coupled with the development of research protocols and standardized assessments to document, benchmark, and understand the causes and outcomes of water insecurity at the household scale.
Amy Uyen Truong is a program coordinator for the Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) Research Coordination Network (RCN). She is also a master’s student in the Water Management and Hydrological Sciences Program at Texas A&M University. Ms. Truong manages the network, communications, event coordination, and daily…
Zeina Jamaluddine is an Instructor of Public Health Practice at the Center for Research on Population and Health (CRPH) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) in Lebanon. Her research focuses on child and household level food insecurity, water insecurity, and malnutrition among refugees…
Dr. Melissa Beresford is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Global Ethnohydrology Studyin the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. Beginning in fall 2019, she will be an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at San José State University. Dr. Beresford is an economic…
