This past April, Harvard’s South Asia Institute hosted a workshop on Water and Poverty in Urban Slums as a component of its annual symposium. Video of this event will be available from their website later this summer, but we have a detailed summary of the discussion among the panelists. In an attempt to better understand the nature of the problem — access to adequate water of suitable quality for the residents of slums — each of the panelists focused on a different aspect of water access and urban slum communities. This year’s panel follows up on the Urban Water Challenges 2014 SAI symposium panel.
Sharmila Murthy, Heather Arney, and Ramnath Subbaraman during the panel.
The panel included:
Heather Arney, Senior Manager of Information, Evaluation, and New Ventures, Water.org
Shafiqul Islam, Director, Water Diplomacy Program, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Professor, Water Diplomacy, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Sharmila Murthy, Assistant Professor of Law, Suffolk University; Visiting Scholar, Sustainability Science Program, Harvard Kennedy School
Ramnath Subbaraman, Associate Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Research Advisor, Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action, and Research (PUKAR), Mumbai, India
Liza Weinstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University
Download the PDF summary here.
