Tuesday
07
October 2025
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM IST
Location
Room 136, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Central Campus
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How do we Achieve SDG #6 by 2030? A Case of Informal Water Services and Water-housing Insecurity Nexus in Nairobi Kenya
Talks
Nupur Joshi
Assistant Professor
Anthropology and Sociology
Kalamazoo College, Michigan
Speaker
Presently, about one billion people reside in slums around the world, creating an ongoing urbanisation and development challenge. Slum settlements lack tenure security, posing an additional challenge for municipal and national governments in providing basic services. In particular, safe and affordable access to water for slum residents remains unmet, as slum settlements often lack municipal water supply coverage and rely on small-scale informal water services. This talk examines how informal water services interact with housing tenure networks in slums to create a challenging housing-water insecurity nexus and urges practitioners to address the nexus together rather than addressing SDG #6 – “clean and safe water for all” as a standalone issue to address.
Speaker
Nupur Joshi
Nupur Joshi is a human-environmental geographer with expertise in water security, informal urbanisation, and climate change impacts in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. She is an assistant professor in the Anthropology and Sociology department at Kalamazoo College, in Michigan. She teaches courses related to international development, environmental justice, urbanization in the Global South, and quantitative research methods. She is a visiting faculty in the Climate Institute at Ahmedabad University this semester studying climate change related heat stress.
