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Training the next generation of water professionals
The Smith School contributes to teaching on the MSc in Water Science, Policy and Management and the MSc in Sustainability Enterprise and the Environment.
The school also has an outstanding cohort of PhD/DPhil scholars. This includes partnership with the NEWAVE International Training Network co-led by Dr Dustin Garrick.
Keeping piped water flowing in rural India
The Government of India aims to provide every rural household with piped drinking water by 2024. Significant public investments have been allocated between 2019 and 2024 to support Prime Minister Modi’s vision through the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM). As the construction phase nears completion, maintaining piped networks to keep water flowing is an increasing priority.
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Latest news
Imaginarium: How Creative Industries Are Rethinking Sustainability
Vanity Fair Italia reports on Imaginarium, an annual event at the headquarters of the Riccardo Catella Foundation, where Smith School HRA Giulio Boccaletti delivered a talk against “blue washing” - commercial practices that exploit the issue of water sustainability.
Four billion lack clean water in 'underestimated' crisis
Professor Rob Hope sheds light on the fact that more than four billion people do not have safe drinking water, according to a new study in Science that suggests the scale of the health and poverty problem is twice as bad as feared.
Four billion people lack safe water - double previous estimates
In a perspective article published in Science, Professor Rob Hope comments on new research estimates which reveal a global lack of access to safe drinking water.