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Estimating household water storage from images: A machine learning approach (2025)
Journal Article

Whilst much research focusses on challenges related to achieving SDG 6.1 (universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water), there has been less attention to challenges of safe transport, storage and use of collected water. In par... Read More about Estimating household water storage from images: A machine learning approach.

Transforming disaster risk reduction with AI and Big Data: Legal and interdisciplinary perspectives (2025)
Journal Article

Managing complex disaster risks requires interdisciplinary efforts. Breaking down silos between law, social sciences, and natural sciences is critical for all processes of disaster risk reduction. It is essential to explore how AI enhances understand... Read More about Transforming disaster risk reduction with AI and Big Data: Legal and interdisciplinary perspectives.

HomeLabs: Mapping household clusters to understand water and energy consumption behaviours (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Utility companies are continuously seeking new ways to understand the intricate nature of household water and energy usage patterns. Conventional “demand management” interventions usually proceed from an “information deficit” approach to behaviour ch... Read More about HomeLabs: Mapping household clusters to understand water and energy consumption behaviours.

Self-reported anticipated harm from drinking water across 141 countries (2024)
Journal Article

Perceptions of drinking water safety shape numerous health-related behaviors and attitudes, including water use and valuation, but they are not typically measured. We therefore characterize self-reported anticipated harm from drinking water in 141 co... Read More about Self-reported anticipated harm from drinking water across 141 countries.

Bayesian network analysis of domestic water and energy use in Bristol (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Understanding the factors influencing domestic water and energy conservation is crucial for promoting sustainable development and resource conservation while achieving well-being and comfort at home. Bayesian networks (BN) are a powerful tool for mod... Read More about Bayesian network analysis of domestic water and energy use in Bristol.

Exploring domestic consumption patterns: A HomeLabs study on water and energy use (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Water and energy utilities are in constant pursuit of deeper insights into consumer use patterns within homes. Traditional demand management strategies often rely on an "information deficit" model, presuming that consumer behaviour can be altered sim... Read More about Exploring domestic consumption patterns: A HomeLabs study on water and energy use.

Enhancing solids deposit prediction in gully pots with explainable hybrid models: A review (2024)
Journal Article

Urban flooding has made it necessary to gain a better understanding of how well gully pots perform when overwhelmed by solids deposition due to various climatic and anthropogenic variables. This study investigates solids deposition in gully pots thro... Read More about Enhancing solids deposit prediction in gully pots with explainable hybrid models: A review.

Estimating water storage from images (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper introduces a novel approach to estimate domestic water storage within households by leveraging the classical computer vision technique of object detection. Ensuring universal access to safe drinking water is a critical component of achievi... Read More about Estimating water storage from images.

Household water containers: Mitigating risks for improved Modular, Adaptive, and Decentralized (MAD) water systems (2024)
Journal Article

While the literature on the design and operation of safe water sources in low-income communities is huge, little attention has been paid to the design of systems for the safe transportation and storage of water by households between source and point... Read More about Household water containers: Mitigating risks for improved Modular, Adaptive, and Decentralized (MAD) water systems.

Household water insecurity in a changing climate: The interplay between distance to water, income, caste and gender in rural Rajasthan, India (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Climate change is expected to have a profound impact on Rajasthan’s water resources and consequently on household water security. This study investigates the relationship between socio-economic structures (household income, caste and gender), physica... Read More about Household water insecurity in a changing climate: The interplay between distance to water, income, caste and gender in rural Rajasthan, India.

The fences of Chuschi: The impacts of land enclosure on an Andean indigenous community (2022)
Journal Article

In this study of the Andean town of Chuschi and its surrounding district of the same name, we consider the impacts of the proliferation of fencing on once open land. The paper contributes to a growing body of literature on the practice and impact of... Read More about The fences of Chuschi: The impacts of land enclosure on an Andean indigenous community.

Open access and the evolving academic publishing landscape of the water sector (2022)
Journal Article

The launch of many new water journals in recent years is a testament to the growth and importance of water research as a problematique, that is, as both a problem in and of itself and as an important correlate of other global challenges. As entire re... Read More about Open access and the evolving academic publishing landscape of the water sector.

Modular, adaptive, and decentralised water infrastructure: promises and perils for water justice (2022)
Journal Article

Climate change, ageing infrastructure, and funding shortfalls threaten the sustainability of modern, 20th century centralised water systems by increasing drinking water costs and undermining water security, particularly for underserved populations. M... Read More about Modular, adaptive, and decentralised water infrastructure: promises and perils for water justice.

Evaluation of water‐energy‐food (WEF) nexus research: Perspectives, challenges, and directions for future research (2021)
Journal Article

In 2018, Albrecht et al., published a comprehensive review of water-energy-food nexus literature, coming to five main criticisms in nexus research based on their perception of the state-of-the-art. The five central conclusions of that review together... Read More about Evaluation of water‐energy‐food (WEF) nexus research: Perspectives, challenges, and directions for future research.

Aligning green infrastructure to sustainable development: A geographical contribution to an ongoing debate (2021)
Journal Article

Blue and green infrastructure (BGI) is increasingly viewed as a promising solution to promoting a shift beyond traditionally engineered “grey” approaches towards more socially and environmentally sustainable infrastructure systems. The specific insig... Read More about Aligning green infrastructure to sustainable development: A geographical contribution to an ongoing debate.

The Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale: Comparison scores from 27 sites in 22 countries (2021)
Journal Article

Household survey data from 27 sites in 22 countries were collected in 2017–2018 in order to construct and validate a cross-cultural household-level water insecurity scale. The resultant Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) scale presents a... Read More about The Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale: Comparison scores from 27 sites in 22 countries.

Putting Water Security to Work: Addressing global sustainable development challenges (2021)
Book

Over the last decade, water security has replaced sustainability as the key optic for thinking about how we manage water. This reframing has offered benefits (including clear recognition of the link between humans, the environment and the right to wa... Read More about Putting Water Security to Work: Addressing global sustainable development challenges.

The water security discourse and its main actors (2021)
Book Chapter

This is a chapter about the advent and adoption by water scholars of a new term, "water security. " How did this term appear, how is it defined, in which settings does it apply, what are its different facets and interpretations? Has it impacted water... Read More about The water security discourse and its main actors.

A global agenda for household water security: Measurement, monitoring, and management (2021)
Journal Article

Water scholarship has advanced considerably in recent decades. Despite this remarkable progress, water challenges may be growing more quickly than our capacity to solve them. While much progress has been made toward achieving Sustainable Development... Read More about A global agenda for household water security: Measurement, monitoring, and management.

A review of 80 assessment tools measuring water security (2021)
Journal Article

© 2021 The Authors. WIREs Water published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. Scholars and practitioners have been working on methodologies to measure water security at a variety of scale and focus. In this paper, we critically examine the landscape of water s... Read More about A review of 80 assessment tools measuring water security.