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*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.
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*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.
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Upcoming Conferences
- International WaTER Conference, Norman, OK, September 16-17, 2019
- Water Security and Climate Change Conference, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, October 28-30, 2019
- American Anthropological Association, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, November 20-24, 2019.
- World Water Congress, International Water Resources Association, Daegu, Korea, May 11-15, 2020
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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.
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.
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Recent HWISE Community Publications
- Adnan, M. S. G., Haque, A., & Hall, J. W. (2019). Have coastal embankments reduced flooding in Bangladesh?. Science of The Total Environment.
- Anwar, N. H., Sawas, A., & Mustafa, D. (2019). ‘Without water, there is no life’: Negotiating everyday risks and gendered insecurities in Karachi’s informal settlements. Urban Studies, 0042098019834160.
- Campero, C., & Harris, L. M. (2019). The Legal Geographies of Water Claims: Seawater Desalination in Mining Regions in Chile. Water, 11(5), 886.
- Hoque, S. F., Hope, R., Arif, S. T., Akhter, T., Naz, M., & Salehin, M. (2019). A social-ecological analysis of drinking water risks in coastal Bangladesh. Science of The Total Environment.
- Latchmore, T., Schuster-Wallace, C. J., Longboat, D. R., Dickson-Anderson, S. E., & Majury, A. (2018). Critical elements for local Indigenous water security in Canada: A narrative review. Journal of water and health, 16(6), 893-903.
- Meerow, S., & Newell, J. P. (2016). Urban resilience for whom, what, when, where, and why?. Urban Geography, 1-21.
- Rodina, L. (2019). Planning for water resilience: Competing agendas among Cape Town’s planners and water managers. Environmental Science & Policy, 99, 10-16.
- Ženko, M., & Menga, F. (2019). Linking Water Scarcity to Mental Health: Hydro–Social Interruptions in the Lake Urmia Basin, Iran. Water, 11(5), 1092.
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