A Tool to Measure Household Water Insecurity Globally
Channel: Engineering for Change
Date: 26/04/2019

Water insecurity — which includes persistent water shortages, contamination, and flooding — threatens human health, wellbeing, economic productivity, and international security. As such, the World Economic Forum has listed “water crises” as among the top 10 most likely and most impactful global risks. Yet strikingly, there has been no way to comparably measure household or individual water insecurity. In this webinar, we discussed the development, validation, and uses of the Household Water InSecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale, a tool that addresses this critical measurement gap.