Water Conversations by Tracy-Lynn Field and Heidi Richards

Interdisciplinary Conversations on Water

Each session pairs a scientist with a social scientist/humanities scholar who make brief opening presentations to be followed by roundtable discussion.

Thursday July, 31, 1-2pm

Conversation 5:

Tracy-Lynn Field – Water stocks and flows: The curious case of small private dams (LAW)

Heidi Richards – How much can we trust our water quality data? (CHEMISTRY)

Lunch will be served at WiSER for all participants.

Please RSVP to Najibha.Deshmukh@wits.ac.za

This conversation runs on Thursdays every three weeks at WiSER,  6^th Floor, Richard Ward Building, East Campus. 

Water impacts each of use every day. From showering first thing in the morning or grabbing a cup of coffee to get the day going through to last thing in the evening for brushing one’s teeth. Implicit to this way of life is the assumption that every moment a tap is touched, water is infinitely available. This assumption is, however, erroneous. Understanding why it is wrong needs interdisciplinary dialogues. The purpose of this series of discussions is for us to begin to communicate with each other. Social scientists, historians, psychologists, artists, literary studies scholars and writers, engineers and scientists all thinking about water together establishing a community of practice.

This series is co-convened by Craig Sheridan and Sarah Nuttall.