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Q&A with Lint Barrage about Climate Change, Flood Risk, and the Housing Market

Lint Barrage is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies at Brown University, and she will be joining the University of California at Santa Barbara Department of Economics in the Fall of 2019. She gave a talk at the Darden Business School about climate risk beliefs and coastal housing…

By Peter Debaere- March 18, 2019

Built Environment, Infrastructure, Innovation, Water Scarcity

Q&A with Greg Characklis about Risk and Water Utilities

Before multidisciplinary approaches in the study of water had become popular, Professor Greg Characklis was thinking about how to better integrate environmental science, engineering, and economics in his research. After an initial (short) stint in the private sector (at Azurix Corporation), in 2001 Greg Characklis joined the faculty of the…

By Peter Debaere- February 15, 2019

Infrastructure, Water & Society, Water Quality, Water Technology

Q&A with Geoff Geise about Desalination

Professor Geoff Geise is a chemical engineer at the University of Virginia and an expert on the membranes that are commonly used in reverse osmosis, a leading technology in seawater desalination. Geise recently contributed the article “Desalination: Water for an Increasingly Thirsty World” to the Water in Europe and the…

By Peter Debaere- January 18, 2019

Infrastructure, Innovation, Water & Society, Water Productivity, Water Quality, Water Technology

Q&A with Jon Freedman about SUEZ and Water Recycling

SUEZ Water Technologies & Solutions is an $18 billion multinational company headquartered in Paris, France. Like Veolia Water Technologies, another French multinational, it is one of the largest water companies in the world, employing over 90,000 people and active on all continents. SUEZ is active in all aspects of…

By Peter Debaere- January 3, 2019

Innovation, Water & Society, Water Quality, Water Technology

Q&A with Courtney Hill, winner of GWI Graduate Prize

On October 26, the Global Water Initiative held its first Graduate Water Colloquium. It brought together over 40 graduate students and faculty who work on water-related issues across the University of Virginia. Nine UVA students in disciplines ranging from engineering to economics to architecture presented their ongoing research on…

By Peter Debaere- December 1, 2018

Infrastructure, Innovation, Water & Society, Water Policy, Water Productivity

Q&A with Chandler Brenneman about Aqua America

The United States faces a water infrastructure crisis. While people in developed countries still have significantly better access to safe water than do people in emerging economies, the lead poisoning in Flint, Michigan, showed that the nation’s water infrastructure is in bad shape in many places. Not surprisingly…

By Peter Debaere- November 1, 2018

Climate Change, Environment, Water & Society, Water Policy, Water Productivity, Water Scarcity

Q&A with Salvi Asefi on East Africa and Climate Change

The Global Water Initiative has supported Dr. Salvi Asefi for much of this year to do research on water and climate change. Dr. Asefi was a member of Professor Deborah Lawrence’s climate change research team. She has studied Lake Tanganyika watershed in East Africa, and its future water availability…

By Peter Debaere- July 16, 2018

Water & Society

Q&A With Marama Muru-Lanning About the Wakaito River

Dr. Marama Muru-Lanning from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, is the first Māori Anthropologist to be awarded a PhD in anthropology since Māori Studies separated from Anthropology in 1991. Marama Muru-Lanning heads the James Henare Research Center at the University of Auckland. She is the…

By Peter Debaere- June 15, 2018