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2024
SHG Activities at 51th IAH congress in Davos, Switzerland 8-13 September 2024
Special Session IAH-SHG: People and Groundwater in the Anthropocene – Socio-hydrogeology for addressing human-groundwater relationships in a changing world.
©Viviana Re
International Day of Women and Girls in (Geo)Science
Established in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science is celebrated every year on 11 February to draw attention to the biases and gender stereotypes that steer girls and women away from STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) disciplines. The aim is to provide full and equal access to science for all girls and women, to further achieve gender equality.
Movie Screening, University of Pisa, Italy. 8th February 2024, 2-4 pm.
“Pani Check- The Sisterhood of Water”
Rekha Devi and Zeenat Begum have a problem: the little water in their community is polluted. German hydrogeologist Theresa Frommen is asked to help. But can illiterate women learn the scientist’s complicated methods? And is she prepared to get involved in the social structures of an Indian community?
The 52-minutes documentary “Pani Check – The Sisterhood of Water” shows the process of a groundbreaking hydrogeological case study. The involvement of those concerned in the model project represents a paradigm shift in scientific research. The film shows how illiterate women learn how to use scientific methods to take ownership of the water problems in their community. It shows how the scientist Theresa meets the challenges of working in the social structures of the Indian communities. And we can see what happens when an innovative and well-intentioned research idea bumps into the realities of a poor community who is asking for quick visible results …
Director: Katalin Ambrus
2023
SHG Activities at 50th IAH congress in Cape Town, South Africa 18-22 September 2023
Special Session IAH-SHG: The connectedness of groundwater and human systems
Annual General Meeting
2022
“What´s new in Hydro?”
Online Seminar Series: The German Expert Group of Hydrogeology in the German Geological Society (Fachsektion Hydrogeologie in der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft) “FH-DGGV” and the German Chapter of the International Association of Hydrgeologists “IAH-D” are conducting the online seminar series “What’s New in Hydro?”. Talk on 20 October 2022: “Groundwater and Society”: Dr. Theresa Frommen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany & Fabian Hecht, Senate Department for the Environment, Urban Mobility, Consumer Protection and Climate Action, Berlin, Germany. More info here or here.
Word Water Week 2022, Stockholm and online, 23 of August to 1 September
25th August: Talk by Viviana Re: “Socio-hydrogeology: uncovering the unseen connections between people and groundwater”, within the seminar programme “Valuing groundwater”. More information here: https://www.worldwaterweek.org/event/10649-siwi-seminar-valuing-groundwater-13
EGU General Assembly 2022: IAH-SHG will host the session: ITS3.2/HS1.1.8 – Socio-Hydrogeology: a transdisciplinary approach to groundwater science. More information here!
2021
First Meeting of the Working Group Gender & Diversity
Wednesday, 13 October 2021, 6-7 pm CEST via Zoom. Minutes will be shared soon.
SHG Activities at 48th IAH congress in Brussels, Belgium, 6th-10th September 2021
Movie Screening: “Pani Check – The Sisterhood of Water”
The transdisciplinary cooperation between freelance filmmaker Katalin Ambrus and hydrogeologist Theresa Frommen from Freie Universität Berlin resulted in two films about a participatory and interdisciplinary hydrogeological project in India between 2016 and 2019.
Date: Monday, 6th September 2021, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm, on-site
More information: here.
Special Session: Socio-Hydrogeology – How can hydrogeology be inspired from other disciplines/outside science?
Chair: Theresa Frommen (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany), Viviana Re (University of Pisa, Italy)
Date: Tuesday, 7th September 2021, 9:15 am – 3:00 pm, on-site
AGM: Annual General Meeting of the Socio-Hydrogeology Network
Date: Thursday, 9th September 2021, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm, on-site
More information: https://iah2021belgium.org/sessions-topics/
Talk at 1st International Conference on Sociohydrology, Delft, The Netherlands, 6th-8th September 2021
Title: Socio-Hydrogeology – Human-water perspectives from below the ground
Speaker: Theresa Frommen, Viviana Re
Date: Tuesday, 7th September 2021, 4:30 pm – 4:45 pm, on-site and online
More information: https://delft2021sh.org/overall-program/
Session at 47th IAH congress in São Paulo, Brazil, September 2020 (postponed to 2021 due to Covid-19 Pandemic)
Title: Groundwater: why gender matters!
Chair: Viviana Re (University of Pisa, Italy), Ana Maciel de Carvalho (Federal University of
Jequitinhonha and Mucuri Valleys, Brazil), Isabella de Castilho Barbosa (Campinas State University,
Brazil), Theresa Frommen (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany), Michela Miletto and Paola
Piccione (UNESCO World Water Assessment Program -WWAP)
More information: https://abas.iah2020.org/
Postponed IAH 2020 – “Groundwater: why gender matters” Webinar, February 2021
The full session is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDFVS9PrVmQ
We highly recommend listening to the discussion starting at 1:30:30. Mansplaining at its best: “What I would suggest for the women […] just to step up”. We are currently writing a detailed commentary on this discussion which will (hopefully) be published soon.
2020
Invited talk at IAH Irish chapter, Dublin, February 2020
Annual David Burdon Memorial Lecture
Title: The role of socio-hydrogeology for groundwater protection in developing countries
Authors: Vivana Re
More information: http://www.iah-ireland.org/upcoming-events/
Session at 1st GEOETH&GWM’20 in Porto, Portugal, May 2020 (online conference)
Title: Socio-Hydrogeology to support ethical groundwater management
Chair: Viviana Re
More information: https://geoeth-gwm2019.wixsite.com/porto/special-sessions
Talk at 27th FH-DGGV 2020 in Leipzig, Germany, March 2020 (canceled due to Covid-19 Pandemic)
Session: freie Themen (free topics)
Title: How does the social get into the hydrogeological? – A brief introduction to the new field of socio-hydrogeology
Authors: Theresa Frommen, Maike Gröschke, Viviana Re, Tobias Krüger
More information: www.fh-dggv.de/leipzig-2020
Talk at 36th IGC 2020 in Delhi, India, March 2020 (canceled due to Covid-19 Pandemic)
Session: Theme 1: Symposium 1.7 Geoethics: Ethical, Social and Cultural Aspects in Geosciences
Title: Socio-hydrogeology – Including social, ethical and cultural aspects into groundwater science
Authors: Theresa Frommen, Viviana Re, Shrikant Limaye
More information: https://www.36igc.org/science-program
2019
Launch of the new Network of Socio-Hydrogeology at IAH 2019
At th
e 46th IAH Congress in Málaga, Spain, we successfully launched the new IAH-Network of Socio-Hydrogeology (IAH-SHG) receiving great interest among the congress participants.
Movie premiere and lecture in May 2019 in Berlin
“Pani 
Check” & “Pani Doctors”
Water as an everyday challenge – A story of women empowerment in peri-urban slums in India. An interdisciplinary documentary project and an educational musical. The transdisciplinary cooperation between freelance filmmaker Katalin Ambrus and hydrogeologist Theresa Frommen from Freie Universität Berlin resulted in two films about a participatory and interdisciplinary hydrogeological project in India between 2016 and 2019. The project involved the development of a participatory groundwater management together with local women groups from low-income areas in close cooperation with the
local organization Mahila Housing SEWA Trust.
On Tuesday, 28th of May 2019, the premiere of the films took place at the ACUD Kunsthaus in Berlin. After a welcome note by Prof. Dr. Michael Schneider (FU Berlin), Dr. Viviana Re from the University of Pisa gave a lecture on socio-hydrogeology, a topic she has been researching for years and which is becoming increasingly important within hydrogeology. Before the premiere started, a small panel discussion shed light on how film can serve as a bridge builder between science and society.
2018
Session at IAH 2018
At the 45th IAH congress in Daejeon, South Korea, Viviana and Theresa chaired a session on “Socio-hydrogeology for groundwater development in low-income countries (IAH-BGID special session)”. With contributions from five countries around the world and a total of eight presentations we had a diverse set of case-studies and approaches. This small but intense session was a great opportunity for in-depth discussion about the new sub-discipline of Socio-Hydrogeology.
