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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.
The Human Utility is a not-for-profit organization that has helped over 3,000 people in Michigan and Maryland avoid the indignity of living without running water in their homes. Since July 2014, the organization has been crowdfunding financial assistance for the elderly…
Noura Wahby is an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge. Her doctoral research at the Cambridge Centre of Development Studies focused on the political economy of urban development and urban waterscapes in Cairo, Egypt. Her…
Anais Roque Antonetty is a Ph.D. student in Environmental Social Sciences in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. Her broad research interests include food, energy, and water insecurity as well as community and governmental strategies for disaster resilience.…
