Funded by the National Science Foundation
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.
Since August 2017, around 700,000 Rohingya people have fled ethnic cleansing in neighboring Myanmar to seek refuge in Bangladesh. The majority of these refugees are living in very fragile conditions in 34 densely populated camps in the Ukhiya and Teknaf…
Our next HWISE NOW Virtual Coffee hour will be on the 27th of June at 11 AM CST! This Virtual Coffee Hour will feature HWISE scholars on the topic of Household Water Insecurity and Climate Disruptions. The conversation will be…
On June 15th, HWISE-RCN member Dr. Asher Rosinger was featured on the cover of Scientific American for his work on the evolution of human water needs. As Laura Helmuth, the editor-in-chief of Scientific American, states, Dr. Rosinger’s article explains that…
Read More HWISE-RCN Dr. Asher Rosinger Makes Cover of Scientific American