Members and Partners

The International WaTERS is an inclusive network and partnership to connect, improve knowledge and build capacity related to water security and governance challenges, especially in the global south. While originally funded by SSHRC in Canada, and led by researchers at the University of British Columbia, we aim to continue to build our network to be inclusive and adaptive in ways that will allow us to evolve and grow in relation to new opportunities.

Network Partner List

University of British Columbia

• Leila Harris: Associate Professor, Co-Director, Program on Water Governance, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES) and Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, UMN ICGC Alumnae

• Karen Bakker: Professor, Co-Director, Program on Water Governance, Geography

• Mark Johnson: Associate Professor, IRES and Earth and Ocean Sciences

• Marwan Hassan: Professor, Geography

• Hannah Wittman: Associate Professor, Food, Nutrition and Health

• Scott McKenzie: Ph.D. Candidate

• Lucy Rodina: Graduated Ph.D. Student

• Emma Luker: Graduated MsC Student

• Crystal Tremblay: Former Postdoctoral Student

University of Minnesota

• Lawrence Baker: Research Professor, Engineering

• Karen Brown: Co-Director, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC)

• Vinay Gidwani: Associate Professor, Geography; Associate Professor, Institute for Global Studies, Director of Graduate Studies

• Michael Goldman: Associate Professor, Sociology

• Devika Narayan: Graduate Student

• John Nieber: Professor, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering

• Allen Isaacman: Professor, Department of History

WaterNet, Eastern and Southern Africa, and University of Western Cape

• Jacqueline Goldin: WaterNet/UNESCO Chair, Institute for Water Studies, University of the Western Cape

• Mucha Musemwa: ICGC alumnus; History, University of the Witwatersrand

• Edmund Pool: Medical Biosciences, University of the Western Cape

• Wapulumuka Mulwafu: University of Malawi, Waternet Chair of Integrated Water Resources Management, ICGC alumnus

• Emmanuel Manzungu: University of Zimbabwe, IHE alumni and collaborator

• Adriano Biza: University Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique, IHE collaborator

• Barbara Tapela: Senior Researcher

• Barbara Ngwenya: University of Botswana

• Blessings Chinsinga: Associate Professor, Dept of Political and Administrative Studies, Faculty of Social Science, Chancellor College, University of Malawi

• Faustin Maganga: Researcher, Institute of Resource Assessment, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

• Hans Komakech: Nelson Mandela African Institute for Science and Technology, Tanzania

• Dominic Mazvimavi: Director of the Institute for Water Studies, University of the Western Cape

• Jan Van Bever Donker: Senior Professor of Geology, University of the Western Cape

• Jessica Wilson: Consultant

• Duncan Brown: Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of the Western Cape

New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)

• Nico Elema: Programme Manager, NEPAD Southern African Network of Water Centres of Excellence

Water Equity Network South/East Africa

• Gert-Jan Veldwisch: Assistant Professor Irrigation and Development, Wageningen University

• Frances Cleaver: Professor in Human Geography, University of Sheffield

UNESCO IHE

• Michelle Kooy: Senior Lecturer in Water Governance, UBC PoWG alumna

• Klaas Schwartz: Associate Professor of Urban Water Governance

• Joyeeta Gupta: Professor of Law and Policy in Water Resources and Environment

• Peter van der Steen: Associate Professor of Environmental Technology

• Jeltsje Kemerink: Senior Lecturer in Water Governance

• Pieter van der Zaag: Professor of Water Resources Management, Head Department of Integrated Water Systems and Governance, UNESCO-IHE, WaterNet board member

• Margreet Zwarteveen: Professor of Water Governance, UNESCO-IHE

Wageningen University

• Dik Roth: Assistant Professor, Sociology of Development and Change Group

• Nynke Post Uiterweer: Researcher, Education Institute

• Deepa Joshi: Docent, Environmental Sciences

• Lena Hommes: Graduated Masters Student

• Matthijs Wessels: Graduated Masters Student

Justica Hidrica

• Rutgerd Boelens: Special Professor, Political Ecology of Water in Latin America (CEDLA, Univ. Amsterdam). Associate Professor WRM ( Wageningen University). Visiting Professor (Catholic University of Peru). Chair Territorial Studies (CONACYT/Mexican Science Found.). Director Justicia Hídrica/Water Justice Alliance. Coordinator NWO programs on Water Struggles

• Francisco Peña: Professor, Researcher, Water and Society Program, El Colegio de San Luis, San Luis Potosi, Mexico

• Leontien Cremers: Water Justice Coordinator, Center for Latin American Research and Documentation - CEDLA, Amsterdam, Netherlands

• Aline Arroyo: Forum Water Resources, Training Coordinator CAMAREN, Quito, Ecuador

• Edgar Isch: Former Minister of Environment of Ecuador, Professor and consultant in national and international organizations

• Antonio Gaybor: CAMAREN Executive Secretary, Chairman of the Research System of Agrarian Problems of Ecuador - SIPAE - Forum Coordinator of Water Resources, Faculty, Central University, Quito, Ecuador

• Mourik Bueno de Mesquita: Social Program Coordinator Water Management, Colegio Andino - Bartolomé de las Casas Center, Cusco, Peru

• Tom Perrault: Associate Professor of Geography, Syracuse University

• Jessica Budds: Senior Lecturer in Environment and International Development, University of East Anglia

• Zulema Guttierez: Consultant in national and international organizations, Cochabamba, Bolivia

• Alfredo Durán: Centro AGUA

• Noelia Cerruto: Researcher and Lecturer in Water and Environmental issues in the GIRH Masters Programme (Centro AGUA - UMSS)

• Gerardo Damonte: Principal Investigator

SaciWATERs

• S Janakarajan: SaciWATERS, President

• Murali Ramisetty: SaciWATERS. Treasurer

• Poulomi Banerjee: Senior Fellow

• Sumit Vij: Senior Fellow

Forum of Water Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India

• KJ Joy: Senior Fellow, SOPPECOM and Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India

Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management (SOPPECOM)

• Seema Kulkarni: Senior Fellow, SOPPECOM

Birzeit University, Institute for Environmental and Water Studies (IEWS)

• Maher Abu-Madi: ‎Director, Institute of Environmental and Water Studies (IEWS) at Birzeit University

Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) Research Coordination Network

• HWISE-RCN Network is a community of scholars and practitioners who research and work in the interdisciplinary field of water insecurity. The RCN is an NSF-funded initiative (2018-2023) dedicated to building a community of practice that fosters key analytics and theoretical advances coupled with the development of research protocols and standardized assessments to document, benchmark, and understand the causes and outcomes of water insecurity at the household scale.

Other participants

• Christopher Sneddon: Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies, Darthmouth

• Zeynep Kadirbeyoglu: Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations Bogazici University

• Farhana Sultana: Associate Professor of Geography, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, USA

• Shiney Varghese: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

• Uygar Ozesmi: Former Executive Director of Greenpeace Mediterranean

• Alex Loftus: Senior Lecturer Department of Geography; King's College London

• Heather O'Leary: Postdoctoral Fellow in Water Policy, McMaster University

• Anjal Prakash: Programme Coordinator of HI-AWARE, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development

• Rhodante Ahlers: Independent Researcher

• Ben Crow: Professor, Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz

• Hameeda Deedat: Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa

• Samer Alatout: Professor of Geography, University of Wisconsin

• Trevor Birkenholtz: Associate Professor of Geography, Penn State

• Brian King: Professor of Geography, Penn State

• Nikhil Anand: Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania

• Dr. Anamika Barua: Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

• Fidyasari Kusama Putri: Jember University

• Bhaskar Jyoti Deka: Assistant Professor, Cotton University

• Dr. Nazzareno Diodato: Met European Research Observatory (MetEROBS)