Access to water and decent sanitation service is a human right, however, its realisation has always been fraught with challenges and is likely to get magnified as structural injustices intersect with the impacts of global warming.

For instance, extreme weather events such as droughts, floods and heatwaves pose serious risks to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) infrastructure, services and access.

This session will focus on how we should reimagine WASH under conditions of climatic uncertainty to ensure just, inclusive and sustainable outcomes. It is part of the  43rd Water Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) International Conference .

Hosted by the UKRI-GCRF funded  Towards Brown Gold project , we will present findings from project sites in Nepal, India and Ethiopia, followed by a live discussion.

The speakers will focus on:

1. Blind spots in the climate change and WASH debate
2. Challenges and opportunities for synergising adaptation and mitigation in WASH
3. Pathways for building climate resilient WASH futures
4. Deliberate on future directions and priorities for research in this sector

This will be a transdisciplinery panel, and the event is aimed at researchers and practitioners.
When:

• Monday 9 September, 14:30 UK time

Speakers:

• Kifle Woldearegay , Mekelle University, Ethiopia
• NC Narayanan , Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
• Sabitri Tripathi , Nepal Engineering College, Nepal
• Deepa Joshi , International Water Management Institute, Sri Lanka
• Lyla Mehta , Institute of Development Studies, UK, and Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
• Shibaji Bose , Independent Consultant, India
• James Ebdon , University of Brighton, UK
• V M Hariprasad , IIT Bombay, India    

Chair:

• Shilpi Srivastava , Institute of Development Studies, UK

How to attend
You can register your attendance for this webinar and the entire conference on the WEDC website . Once you have signed-up for the conference, you will be able to then register for this session.