Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) - Research Coordination Network (RCN)
Funded by the National Science Foundation
On June 15th, HWISE-RCN member Dr. Asher Rosinger was featured on the cover of Scientific American for his work on the evolution of human water needs. As Laura Helmuth, the editor-in-chief of Scientific American, states, Dr. Rosinger's article explains that…
Read More HWISE-RCN Dr. Asher Rosinger Makes Cover of Scientific American
Dr. Emily Kumpel is an Assistant Professor of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA). Her research spans intermittent water supplies, water distribution systems, small rural water…
Our fifth HWISE NOW Virtual Coffee hour will be on the 29 of June at 10 AM CST! This Virtual Coffee Hour will feature HWISE scholars on the topic of Gender-Based Violence and Water Insecurity. To register, please fill out…
Vanessa Lucena Empinotti is an Assistant Professor in the Spatial Planning Program at Federal University of ABC – UFABC, Brazil. An agronomist by training, she completed her Ph.D. in Geography at The University of Colorado-Boulder, where she studied participatory practices and water governance…
Our fourth HWISE NOW Virtual Coffee hour will be on the 25th of May at 11 AM CST! This Virtual Coffee Hour will feature HWISE scholars on the topic of Drinking Water Quality and HWISE: Debates, Issues, Challenges. To register,…
Amber Wutich is the program director for the Action for Water Equity. The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Growing Convergence Research (GCR) program has funded a five-year grant with ASU/Future H20 to look at the role investments in social infrastructure play…
On April 16th, HWISE-RCN member Dr. Leila Harris delivered a presentation titled “Infrastructures of Inequality” as a part of the UNM Murphy Lecture series. The lecture focused on Dr. Harris’s long-running research into the politics and processes of water infrastructure in Accra,…
Read More HWISE-RCN Member Dr. Leila Harris delivered the 2020-2021 UNM Murphy Lecture
Dr. Asher Rosinger is the Ann Atherton Hertzler Early Career Professor at Pennsylvania State University. He founded and directs the Water, Health, and Nutrition Laboratory (https://hhd.psu.edu/bbh/research/research-labs/water-health-and-nutrition-lab) alongside undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate researchers to understand cross-cultural variation in how humans meet…
Paula Skye Tallman is a Research Associate at The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and will join the Anthropology Department at Loyola University in Chicago this Fall. As a graduate student at Northwestern University, she conducted research on vulnerability and…
On March 31st, HWISE-RCN member Michelle Kooy, with Ph.D. fellow Bosman Batubara and Nila Ardhianie from the Amtra Institute, presented “Re-enchanting more-than-urban water metabolism through degrowth: contestation and experimentation in Semarang, Indonesia.” This presentation was a part of the King's…
