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Aquatic ecologist Kathleen Rugel has been named Policy and Practice Fellow at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC). Rugel, who is currently a chemical analyst for J. Leek Associates, Inc. in southwest Georgia as well as an independent scholar, will begin her tenure as fellow at SESYNC in June. She will work on her book, Getting to Water, which she hopes to have published by 2019.
Getting to Water tackles the subject of the lack fresh water, which is affecting human populations and the environment and “bringing us to what is perhaps the greatest crisis of our epoch,” Rugel writes. “It is now estimated that two out of three persons in the world will be living in water stressed regions by 2025 and 1.8 billion will be in an area of absolute scarcity.” Rugel’s book will examine solutions to how water can be shared and protected as well as positioned squarely at the front of global agendas.
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