Water security in the parks and gardens of Hermosillo

By: David Ruiz López on 21st Aug 2018

David Ruiz is a senior undergraduate student majoring in Public Administration at the University of Sonora in Hermosillo, Mexico. David won the International Water Security Network Student Prize 2018. He is interested in water security issues related to greenspace... Read more »

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Alexander Davies wins 2018 IWSN-UWE Student Prize

By: Chad Staddon on 6th Aug 2018

Alexander Davies has been awarded the IWSN-UWE Student Prize for his excellent research project on the root cause analysis of structural failures in ferrocement rainwater harvesting tanks in Kisoro, Uganda. Reviewers praised the maturity of his approach to a... Read more »

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Francieli Thums wins 2017 IWSN-UWE Student Prize

By: Wayne Powell on 13th Jun 2017

Francieli Thums has been awarded the 2017 IWSN-UWE Student Prize for her assessment of two different methods of testing the structural and visual integrity of large diameter sewers. Francieli, a BEng Civil and Environmental Engineering student at the University... Read more »

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Promoting water conservation at the household level in Hermosillo, Mexico

By: Ana Melissa Aguirre, María Alejandra Gallardo, and Miryam Fernanda Ramírez (Translated by Adriana Zuniga) on 30th Aug 2016

Ana Melissa, Maria Alejandra, and Miryam Fernanda were awarded the 2016 IWSN Student Prize in July. They are undergraduate students at Universidad de Sonora in Hermosillo, Mexico. This summer, they conducted a brief but informative study and submitted a... Read more »

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Molly Byrne wins 2016 IWSN-UWE Student Prize

By: Wayne Powell on 3rd Aug 2016

Molly Byrne has been awarded the 2016 IWSN-UWE Student Prize for her investigation into water quality in rainwater harvesting tanks in rural Kenya. Molly travelled to Kenya in the summer of 2015 as part of the UWE Global Water... Read more »

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Three public policy students are awarded IWSN Student Prize for essay on water security

on 21st Jul 2016

With an essay that describes the promotion of water conservation in households, Ana Melissa Aguirre Loreto, Maria Alejandra Gallardo Urrea and Myriam Fernanda Ramirez Ruiz, undergraduate students at Universidad de Sonora, were selected as winners of the IWSN Student... Read more »

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Monash students awarded IWSN Student Prize at first annual drought seminar

By: Linda Downsborough on 6th Jul 2016

On Friday 3 June, Monash South Africa, in partnership with the International Water Security Network, hosted a seminar which brought together academics, practitioners and both undergraduate and postgraduate scholars to engage in a dialogue around drought. Currently, drought is... Read more »

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IWSN Africa co-hosts Southern African drought seminar

By: Linda Downsborough on 23rd May 2016

Southern Africa is currently facing one of the worst drought periods of recent times. Increased temperatures and decreased rainfall are playing havoc in the agricultural sectors of many Southern African nations, creating food and water security issues for millions... Read more »

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IWSN annual meeting takes place in Tucson, Arizona

By: Adriana Zuniga-Teran on 20th Oct 2015

Partners from the IWSN reunited in September 2015 for a three-day annual meeting – this time in Tucson, Arizona, hosted by the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona (UA). The gathering assembled members... Read more »

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Charlotte Whitmarsh wins 2015 IWSN-UWE Student Prize

By: Wayne Powell on 22nd Sep 2015

The IWSN Student Prize for 2015, for the best final year dissertation or project on a water topic by a UWE undergraduate, was awarded to BA Geography student Charlotte Whitmarsh. Charlotte travelled to Uganda in the summer of 2014... Read more »

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