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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.
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.
A new special issue, “Water Economy,” edited by Dr. Amber Wutich and Dr. Melissa Beresford is now available through Economic Anthropology. The issue features 10 articles from many HWISE members. Introduction abstract: “Anthropological research on water and economy has a long and rich history, especially…
By: Dr. Amber Pearson, Associate Professor, Michigan State University Precarity exists when people have little predictability in their day to day living conditions, including the water they need to survive and live a quality life. When power is uneven, or…
Photos: Dr. Kedir and team piloting a detailed water insecurity module in May, for integration into Haramaya University projects. Dr. Kedir (MPH, PhD) is one of our newest HWISE members, and is Assistant Professor at the the College of Health and Medical Sciences, Haramaya…
