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Bio summary

Wutich, a world-renowned expert on water insecurity, directs the Global Ethnohydrology Study, a cross-cultural study of water knowledge and management in more than 20 countries. She leads Action for Water Equity, which develops water solutions with water-insecure communities in the United States. She is also the director of the Center for Global Health, a President’s Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, and a 2023 MacArthur Fellow. Her work in socio-hydrology and household water insecurity literally defined those fields.