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About HWISE-RCN

 

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. 

A Letter from Wendy

 

We want to thank the HWISE Community for all your support, enthusiasm, energy, and ideas that have propelled the RCN forward over the past year. We are working hard to provide our HWISE members with information on research opportunities and new publications. We are managing the HWISE dataset and highlighting amazing research and HWISE successes in our newsletter and our webpage.  Indeed, we have had some major successes over the past year –from headlining conferences, workshops, and keynotes to amazing awards and recognition.  National and international media have highlighted and reported on your work and its critically important perspectives on household water insecurity! Please check out past issues of our newsletter to see what great work we are doing together (https://hwise-rcn.org/join-the-network/newsletters/).  
 
I also want to send a special thanks to the wonderful support staff for the RCN – Josh Miller (Northwestern) and Amy Uyen Truong (TAMU).  This year could not have been so successful without their constant dedication and professionalism!

We are moving into our second year, and there is much more work to be done! We will continue the newsletter to celebrate our “wins” and to keep information flowing!  We want to build new opportunities for the RCN to facilitate cross-community partnerships, provide more opportunities for public engagement, and develop educational resources for our community with syllabi catalogue and webinars.  We are also reworking the website to make it more user friendly and provide a nice representation of our work. 
 
I also encourage you to contact us (hwise.rcn@gmail.com) if you have ideas or thoughts on what you would like to see from the RCN in the next year! 
 
We have lofty goals, but we know that with your support, we will also be able to achieve all of them….and more!
 
 
Best Wishes,
 
Wendy Jepson
Chair, HWISE Executive Committee

 

HWISE Scholar Highlight

Amy Uyen Truong
Amy Uyen Truong is this month's HWISE Scholar Highlight.
Amy Uyen Truong is a program coordinator for the Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) Research Coordination Network (RCN). She is also a master's student in the Water Management and Hydrological Sciences Program at Texas A&M University.

Ms. Truong manages the network, communications, event coordination, and daily operations for the network. She works with Dr. Wendy Jepson to assess and track goals and milestones of the network and report on the wonderful activities of the network and its members through the newsletter, twitter, blog, and listserv.

She previously has experience facilitating watershed protection plan development and implementation, and project management for statewide education programs. She has worked with stakeholders in the Attoyac Bayou Watershed to resolve complex water quality issues a and led a research study on water requirements of 97 ornamental species in central Texas.

Her research focuses on transboundary water justice in the Colorado River Basin. She is especially interested in stakeholder perspectives related to salinity in the basin. Ms. Truong has interests in international water governance and management, environmental justice, water security, and water affordability.

Technical Reports:

Truong, A., White, R.H., Cobb, F., Lopez, R. “The Drought Survivability Study”, TWRI Technical Report-495, 2016.

Finch, C., Mjedle, J., Brumbelow, K., Truong, U.Water Policy Analysis for Cities of San Antonio and Fair Oaks Ranch”, Technical Report-492, 2015.

For more information visit her website and follow her @amyuyentruong.

 

Announcing a New Johns Hopkins University Press Series: Water and Society

 

The last few years have seen an explosion of innovative and important scholarship on the complex human experience of water, embracing sufficient, safe water as a human right. The new Water and Society series will showcase synthetic treatments and case studies based in both lower and higher income countries as the growing challenges of water insecurity are faced in both. Similarly, innovative and important solutions will come from a variety of places and perspectives. Those new to book writing can expect -- if desired -- significant mentoring support from the editorial team as they develop their proposal, navigate contracting, and complete their vision.
 
If you have an idea for a monograph, please contact any us for more information.  
 
Series Editors,
University Professor Wendy Jepson (Texas A&M University), wjepson@tamu.edu
President’s Professor Amber Wutich (Arizona State University), amber.wutich@asu.edu
President’s Professor Alexandra Brewis (Arizona State University), alex.brewis@asu.edu
 
One of the largest publishers in the United States, the Johns Hopkins University Press combines traditional books and journals publishing units with cutting-edge service divisions that sustain diversity and independence among nonprofit, scholarly publishers, societies, and associations.   

 

The Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) - Research Coordination Network (RCN) recently launched at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting. The Arizona State University (ASU) International Development Center generously hosted the event at the ASU Barrett and O'Connor Center in Washington, DC. Watch presentations from the evening here.

Speakers in order of appearance: Dr. Amber Wutich (Arizona State University), Dr. Sera Young (Northwestern University), Ms. Marie Paule Roudil (UNESCO), and Mr. Jon Clifton (Gallup)
 
Thank you to all who attended!


IWRA's "The Global Water Security Challenge" Webinar

 

The International Water Resources Association (IWRA) hosted a webinar on, “The Global Water Security Challenge” co-organized by Dr. Christopher Scott (University of Arizona) and Dr. Chad Staddon (University of West of England and HWISE-RCN Executive Committee member).
 
From IWRA:
“It brought together a panel of senior and junior panelists who highlighted different aspects of this key theme challenging currently our planet. They discussed both the longer history of the notion of water security, noting how the term has come into its own in the academic sphere, but at the same time has taken on certain aspects in the policy field, which focuses on zero-sum state policy rather than win-win solutions to address concerns from traditionally marginalized groups such as women, children or indigenous people. Panelists also explored questions around security at different scales and contexts, including at the household level in the South-West USA, mining communities in Mexico, transboundary aquifers, or wastewater in India.
During the webinar, a poll was conducted to our audience suggesting that virtual water is one of the most under discussed aspects of water security. A result that our panel found engaging and suggesting for new avenues of study.
[…]
Other panelists include: Adriana Zuniga-Teran (School of Landscape Architecture and Planning and Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, University of Arizona); Tamee Albrecht (School of Geography and Development and Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, University of Arizona); America Lutz-Ley (Center of Studies on Development – Centro de Estudios del Desarrollo, El Colegio de Sonora); and, Bhuwan Thapa (Department of Geography, Indiana University). The event was moderated by Scott McKenzie, PhD Candidate, University of British Columbia.”
 
Read more about the event here and watch the webinar here.

 

*NEW* Scholarly Updates


Teams of HWISE collaborators recently submitted four water insecurity-oriented papers—on topics ranging from food insecurity, infant feeding, measures of water quality, and urban poverty—to the American Journal of Human Biology for a special issue on water and human biology. We hope to be well-represented in the planned 2020 issue.
 
Ongoing household water insecurity projects using multi-site HWISE survey data include analyses of water worry (Ashley Hagaman); water expenditures (Amber Pearson); water sharing (Asher Rosinger and Amber Wutich); injuries (Vidya Venkataramanan); water sociotechnology (Chad Staddon); gender and intersectionality (Leila Harris); coping strategies (Shalean Collins); urbanism, piped water schemes, and intermittency (Wendy Jepson); and population and environmental drivers (Justin Stoler). Please reach out to the respective project lead if you have questions or are interested in contributing. To propose a new analysis using HWISE survey data, please use the project proposal form on the RCN web site.

*NEW* HWISE Community Updates

  • We are pleased to announce that Olivia Molden successfully defended her PhD dissertation, “The Lived Experiences of Water Insecurity: Spatial Narratives from the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal.” Committee members include: Dr. Katie Meehan (Chair), Daniel Buck, Mark Fonstad, and Mark Carey. She will graduate with her PhD in Geography from the University of Oregon in June. Congratulations, Dr. Molden!
  • Dr. Stroma Cole presented work on HWISE to a “Water security on the gender continuum” workshop alongside Dr. Leila Harris at Kent University. HWISE intersects with non-binary gender and their differing issues with water security. Other conversations include discussions around the fluidity of gender and water. More details to come in a future newsletter!
  • Dr. Alyssa Crittenden has received a grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research to collect pilot data on water insecurity and hydration strategies among the Hadza foragers of Tanzania. Data collection for her project, entitled "A changing diet in a changing landscape: Dietary intake, hydration strategies, and food and water insecurity among the Hadza foragers of Tanzania", will take place this summer. 

Upcoming Conferences

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 PAPERWater 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.

CALL FOR PAPER - WATER Special Issue on Water Security. Prof. Dr. Robert Patrick and Prof. Dr. Arjen Y. Hoekstra seek to amass papers that express the diversity and full breadth of water security, embracing both pragmatic and critical perspectives. Water is fundamental to human life, in fact, for many people, water is life. The security of water supply (quantity) and water quality is a fundamental determinant of human health and survival. Please submit your manuscript to Dr. Robert Patrick, rjp221@mail.usask.ca, by October 31 2019.

Recent HWISE Community Publications

 

Send an email to Amy Truong (hwise.rcn@gmail.com) if...

  • You would like to join as an HWISE RCN Member

  • Have HWISE-related publications you'd like to share with the network

  • If you have any recent events/conferences the network should be aware about

  • Have news, jobs, opportunities, grants, or updates by June 30, 2019.
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