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.
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.”
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.
Dr. Lucero Radonic is an assistant professor at Michigan State University where she have a joint appointment in the Department of Anthropology and the Environmental Science and Policy Program. Dr. Radonic’s research examines water governance at the intersection of climate change and…
This month Dr. Sera Young was interviewed on water fetching injuries on BBC’s Health Check. Her discussion of the topic can be found at around the 22:30 minute mark, here. If you would like to read more on this work being…