Wutich investigates water insecurity-emotional distress link
October 29, 2008
Amber Wutich of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change and the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity and Mississippi State University's Katherine Ragsdale are pioneers in the field of urban water insecurity research. Their ethnographic field study of Villa Israel—a settlement on the outskirts of Cochabamba, Bolivia—links emotional distress to water distribution systems and establishes no relationship to water supply or dependence on seasonal water sources. The research project is the first systematic study of intra-community patterns of water insecurity in an urban setting. Wutich's and Ragsdale's findings appear in the journal Social Science & Medicine.
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