Tag: water security
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Texas A&M AgriLife and National Autonomous University of Mexico sign agreement
Researchers from the Texas Water Resources Institute, UNAM and Texas A&M AgriLife formalized a partnership for future collaborations.
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Water insecurity is not limited to the global South
Article originally written by Ava English A review article in WIREs Water published by Wiley in October 2020 written by 23 experts critically examined myths about household water insecurity in high-income countries and provided a new framework to inform future research and policy. The review identified and disputed six myths about water security in the global North…
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Opinion: Rapid Relief—Dealing with water shutoffs during COVID-19
This was originally published March 28, 2020 by Dr. Manny Teodoro on his personal blog and was republished by the Texas A&M University College of Liberal Arts on April 8. It is republished here with permission. The COVID-19 crisis has escalated America’s water and sewer affordability challenge into a full-blown health emergency. Many low-income households struggle to pay for these essential…
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TWRI’s Winter 2020 txH2O published
We recently published the Winter 2020 issue of our magazine, txH2O, highlighting the connection between water and health, such as pathogens, poverty, PFAS and other water-health issues and developing potential solutions. Check out these articles : TWRI interviewed experts from Texas A&M University’s Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Department of Geography, Department of Electrical…
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Quantifying Connections
By Leslie Lee In 2009, the Arab Gulf nation of Qatar, which imports more than 90 percent of its food, set out to improve its food security and established the Qatar National Food Security Program. Its government turned to a relatively new kind of analysis to test the feasibility of its goal: the water, energy,…
