Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) - Research Coordination Network (RCN)
Funded by the National Science Foundation
In early March, just before the coronavirus lockdown, 18 scholars met at the University of Miami for a two-day workshop titled Connecting the Dots between Climate Change, Water Insecurity, and Migration. The workshop explored the pathways by which household water insecurity—exacerbated by climate…
The Young Research Group in 2017. We are excited to feature the amazing work of one of HWISE-RCN’s executive committee members, Dr. Sera Young, for our inaugural “Mentorship Highlight.” With this new feature, we hope to shine a light on…
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Dr. Edward (Jed) Stevenson was March's HWISE Scholar Highlight. Jed Stevenson is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Durham University. As a postdoc at Emory University, he carried out research on water-related stress in rural Ethiopia. This mixed-methods study showed that water…
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Patrick Thomson is this month's HWISE Scholar Highlight. Patrick Thomson is Lead Researcher for the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment's Water Programme, at Oxford University. His research focuses on the use of technology and improved data to enable…
HWISE Members (from left) Chad Staddon, Amber Wutich, Wendy Jepson, Patrick Thompson and Justin Stoler in Beijing for the AWRA “Water Security” Speciality Conference, September 16-18, 2019 Amber Wutich, President's Professor at Arizona State University and HWISE Executive Committee member, led a group…
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The Texas Standard produced a series of stories on the role of water in our interconnected world. Through that series, Dr. Wendy Jepson served as an expert on "Why Women Navigate Access To Water." This episode focuses on the role…
Read More Texas Standard: Why It’s Women Who Navigate Access to Water
The Royal Geographical Society published, "HWISE: developing household-scale metrics to tackle water insecurity." It features "research by geographers into household water insecurity is improving understanding and helping mitigate water insecurity, and developing flexible research tools for global use." The HWISE…
Dr. Amanda Fencl is an interdisciplinary environmental geographer and current Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Geography at Texas A&M University. She is working on the TAMU President’s Excellence Fund X-Grant project, Pathways to Sustainable Urban Water Security, as a member of…
The Feed the Future Innovation lab for small scale Irrigation, seeks private sector partners to contribute to accelerate the scaling of smallholder irrigated production in Ghana and Ethiopia. Partners will implement innovative, market system activities to strengthen irrigation technology supply, finance services, and…
Read More Solicitation for Private Partnerships for Scaling Small Scale Irrigation
Dacotah-Victoria Splichalova is a Public Scholar Initiative student and doctoral student with Dr. Leila Harris in the Resources, Environment and Sustainability program at the University of British Columbia. She has recently been featured for her work on water insecurity, "Narratives…
Read More PhD Student Dacotah-Victoria Splichalova Featured for Water Insecurity Research
