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.
Thanti Octavianti is a research fellow in cities, water and resilience at the University of the West of England, Bristol. She completed her PhD in the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University in 2019. She holds MSc in…
Our second HWISE NOW Virtual Coffee hour will be on the 31st of March at 11 AM CST! This Virtual Coffee Hour will specifically focus on household water insecurity in schools and healthcare facilities. To register, please go to our Eventbrite page…
Dr. Melissa Beresford, Dr. Wendy Jepson, Dr. Greg Pierce, and Dr. Amanda Fencl all worked to put together a proposal for the California State University’s CALSPEAKS Public Opinion Survey (see full title and author details below). The CALSPEAKS survey regularly…