I am thrilled and honoured to announce that I have been appointed as the next Director of the Water: Effective Technologies and Tools (WETT) Research Centre at #RMITUniversity (starting from the end of January, 2023).

I look forward to building on the excellent prior leadership of Prof. Jega Jegatheesan and previously, Prof. Felicity Roddick and to working with current and future members of the #WETTResearchCentre to expand and further strengthen our research, innovation and translation in water science, engineering and technologies at #RMIT.

I look forward also to working collaboratively with water industry partners and stakeholders (including Aboriginal Traditional Owners) to provide sustainable solutions for water management and usage and to protect our natural waterways, bays and seas.

You can find out more about the WETT Research Centre on:
https://www.rmit.edu.au/research/centres-collaborations/wett-research-centre

#water #WaterResearch #WaterTechnologies #WaterTreatment #DrinkingWater #wastewater #stormwater #UrbanWater #biosolids #WaterSustainability

To know more about me, visit https://www.anandarchana.com or https://biology.sfsu.edu/archana-anand
#environmentalmicrobiology #eDNA #soil #microbiome #climatechange #beachmicrobiome #wastewater #urbanwater #SarsCoV2

#Water is a basic nutrient essential for survival, but also a source of recreation and myths. Tomorrow, the conference #UrbanWaterII will start at the #KielerKunsthalle, dealing with the question of how urban actors in the #premodern era perceived their environment in connection with water and interacted with it: https://www.cluster-roots.uni-kiel.de/en/calendar-events/conferences-workshops/urban-water-conference
#History #Archaeology #Humanenvironmentalinteraction #UrbanWater

By 2050 projections have 80% of the roughly 10 billion people on earth living in urban regions. Global average temperatures are likely to be 2-3 degrees C above pre-industrial levels and extreme conditions may render swathes of the planet effectively uninhabitable. #UrbanWater scarcity will be rampant. Read Jay Famiglietti from 2019 on the troubling geography of global water scarcity:

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/trend/archive/spring-2019/a-map-of-the-future-of-water

https://water.usask.ca/

#UrbanWaterFutures #CitiesForPeople #AnthropoceneEthics