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HWISE-RCN Launches at AAAS Annual Conference
Thank you everyone for attending the launch of the Household Water Insecurity (HWISE) Scale and a special thanks to our host, Arizona State University – International Development Office in Washington, DC.
In 2018, a high-level panel at the United Nations declared that this is a water-action decade with a need for higher resolution data. We were honored to have the Director of the UNESCO Liaison Office New York and Representative to the United Nations, Marie-Paule Roudil, present on the importance of water insecurity, especially for the 2030 United Nations Agenda. Her remarks noted how the HWISE- scale is a concrete and robust reply to what she has been hearing at the UN in New York.
We also thank Jon Clifton, Global Managing Partner with Gallup, for presenting the need for higher resolution data on water insecurity. He affirmed that just a rigorous methodology has been created to quantify happiness, financial inclusion, hunger, and slavery, the next step is to quantify water insecurity.
This effort is led by Dr. Justin Stoler (Miami University), Dr. Sera Young (Northwestern University), Dr. Wendy Jepson (Texas A&M University), Dr. Chad Staddon (University of Bristol, England) and Dr. Amber Wutich (Arizona State University). The network was formed in response to a call by scholars, policymakers, and international program officers for better metrics on household-level water access and use. Their work is being advanced with support from NSF’s Geography and Spatial Sciences Program.
We thank the attendees for a vibrant discussion on the use of the HWISE scale and look forward to advancing the scale in partnership with both UNESCO and Gallup in the 2020 round of the Gallup World Polls.
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Dr. Young writes Op-eds
Executive committee member, Dr. Sera Young, recently wrote two opinion editorials, one entitled “US water security falls short” for The Hill and “The Risks of Water Insecurity” for the Scientific American on the development of the Household Water Insecurity Experiences Scale.
Dr. Young, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Global Health at Northwestern University, wrote on water quality issues across cities in America such as Detroit, Newark, New Jersey and Chicago, as well as water shut-offs across the country due to the inability to pay for water bills (The Hill, 2018).
The consequences of water insecurity have surfaced in child health, homeless children and migrant children, among many other areas (Scientific American, 2019).
Congratulations to Dr. Young on sharing a very timely and important discussion on water insecurity.
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Job Announcements
- Senior Researcher/Professor at the School of Environment at the University of Auckland. Apply by March 3, 2019.
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Upcoming HWISE Events
- HWISE Special Sessions and Research at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting (Washington, DC, April 3-7, 2019). Mark your calendars - we will be hosting an open reception at the AAG on April 4 from 7:00 – 8:30 PM at the Marriot Wardman Park Hotel (Balcony A), come join us for the launch of the HWISE-RCN!
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Upcoming Conferences
- Consortium of Universities for Global Health, Chicago, IL, March 8-10, 2019
- Society for Applied Anthropology, Portland, OR, March 19-23, 2019
- Breastfeeding and Feminism, Chapel Hill, NC, March 20-22, 2019
- REACH Conference on Water Security and Poverty, Keble College, University of Oxford, UK, March 27-29, 2019. Early bird tickets available until December 16, 2018.
- Consider attending the Human Biology Association meeting in Cleveland, March 27-28, where there will be a strong HWISE-RCN presence. On the afternoon of Wednesday 27th March, the Plenary Session is on the Human Biology of Water, organized by HWISE_RCN folks Asher Rosinger and Alex Brewis. Other HWISE_RCN folks in the plenary line-up include Cassandra Workman and Ellis Adams. To cap the event, our own Amber Wutich is the highlight speaker of the conference, talking on “Water Insecurity: An Agenda for Research and Call to Action for Human Biology.” Email alex.brewis@asu.edu with any questions.
- American Association of Geographers, Washington, DC, April 3-7, 2019
- Nordic Geographers Meeting, Sustainable Geography-Geographies of Sustainability, Trondheim, Norway, June 16-19, 2019. Deadline for abstracts, December 15, 2018
- Human Development & Capability Association, London, UK, September 9-11, 2019
- International WaTER Conference, Norman, OK, September 16-17, 2019
- Water Security and Climate Change Conference, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, October 28-30, 2019.
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Opportunities
CALL FOR PAPER – Health and Ecology: Water, Wellbeing and Medicine. The Journal of Culture, a peer-reviewed journal published by the Institute of Ethnology at Charles University in Prague, Czech, is calling for papers discussing the concepts of wellbeing and health from a holistic perspective in relationship to the element of water within a larger ecological paradigm, as well as practices associated with these concepts, aiming at nurturing and restoring wellbeing and health through medical, complementary and alternative approaches and interventions. Read more here and submit a completed manuscript no longer than 8,000 words by September 30, 2019 to the edits of this special issue: Jana Kopelentova Rehak, jrehak@umbc.edu; Alexander Rödlach, roedlach@creighton.edu; Barbora Půtová, barbora.putova@ff.cuni.cz.
CALL FOR PAPER - Water Insecurity and Crisis as a Social Construct, its Policy Implications and Remedial Actions. Dr. Richard Meissner and Dr. Jeroen Warner are calling for papers in an article collection hosted by Frontiers in Environmental Science. They are collecting a wide-range of contributions that focus on this topic from water resources management and human health to water-related resource utilization and theoretical perspectives and policy practices.
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Recent HWISE Community Publications
- Cassandra L. Workman (2019) Perceptions of drinking water cleanliness and health-seeking behaviours: A qualitative assessment of household water safety in Lesotho, Africa, Global Public Health, DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2019.1566483
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HWISE Member News
We would also like to highlight member news in our communications. Feel free to send news, publications, jobs or opportunities, grants, or other updates to Amy Truong (hwise.rcn@gmail.com) by March 31.
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