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.
Over the last few months, the Individual Water Insecurity Experiences (IWISE) Scale, which allows for greater disaggregation of water security to the level of the individual, has been rolled in a Gallup World Poll, UNESCO Water, and featured in Cairo…
Dr. Amanda Fencl and Dr. Kristin Dobbin’s work was cited in an article in the Metropolitan Planning Council. The article emphasized the importance of equity when considering regionalization and consolidation. Specifically, the article offers preliminary thoughts on the equity implications…