The lack of water is a problem for many communities, but women bear the brunt of the burden. “It’s easy to forget how dangerous it is to actually just go and acquire the water,” Sera Young told Vice. Read the story on Vice.
In a new study, Sera Young and her colleagues call for improvements in water infrastructure and technologies and better ways to reuse and recycle water to address the global water crisis. Read the story on Gizmodo.
Water insecurity has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Sera Young joins the Gallup podcast to unpack the wide-ranging impacts that water scarcity has, even in first-world countries. Read the story on Gallup.
As COVID-19 cases increase, Joshua Miller and Sera Young write in a Hill op-ed that when water is limited, as it is for many around the world and in the U.S., handwashing is compromised. Read the op-ed on The Hill.
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof featured a write-up by Sera Young and Joshua Miller in his newsletter highlighting their data showing one in four households they examined did not have access to water to wash their hands. Read the story on the New York Times.