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Our project aims to address this gap to better capture and understand non-material aspects that might be important as ‘conversion factors’ to enable capabilities and entitlements to overcome household water insecurity.
In the WI>FI project we are investigating explicitly the conditions under which household food insecurity might be accounted for by water insecurity.
Several HWISE RCN Member researchers and collaborators examine multiple dimensions of WASH, water and food security, and gender in Amhara, Ethiopia.
We examine vulnerability of rural communities located in Brazil’s semiarid to enhace water, food, and energy security
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.
In early June, the HWISE-RCN Executive and Steering Committee issued a joint statement on racism and water insecurity. Alongside this statement, the RCN launched a permanent feature on the website dedicated to racism, water insecurity, and environmental injustice. These pages include publications, organizations,…
We are excited to feature the amazing work of another one of HWISE-RCN’s members, Dr. Amber Wutich, for our third “Mentorship Highlight.” With this new feature, we hope to shine a light on the innovative models our members are utilizing to foster…
Yanna Lambrinidou is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society (STS) at Virginia Tech and cofounder of the Campaign for Lead Free Water. Focusing on the problem of lead in US drinking water, she works at the intersection of…
