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.
Four HWISE RCN collaborators recently published a paper in BMJ Global Health that sets the agenda for the next wave of household water insecurity metrics. The article reflects on the current suite of measurements and highlights three core aspects of…
The HWISE RCN had a successful week at both the UN Water Conference and at the AAG in the past few weeks! Thank you so much to all those 1 attended HWISE sessions, presented on behalf of HWISE, and organized…
Water: A Critical Introduction is a newly published book by Dr. Katie Meehan, Dr. Naho Mirumachi, Dr. Alex Loftus, and Dr. Majed Akhter. The team presented the book at the most recent AAG conference in Denver. Touching on topics surrounding…