This creative session will feature audio-visual material including film and photography from the ESRC/ACCESS funded project "Taps Aff!" Voicing Experiences of Water Scarcity in Rural Scotland’.
Water scarcity events are complex environmental crises with far-reaching environmental, social, and economic consequences. However, they have not kept pace with other environmental challenges in terms of attention garnered and particularly attention paid to the specificities of place and the complexity of the social and environmental issues that are catalysts for water scarcity, including those relating to climate change. Despite reference to Scotland as a ‘hydro-nation,’ many areas of the country now frequently undergo periods of water scarcity. This issue is of growing concern amongst communities and wider stakeholders, but the lived experience of these events is little understood.