A geographer and water policy specialist by training, Dr Katie Meehan is Co-Director of King’s Water Centre at King’s College London and PI (Principal Investigator) of the Plumbing Poverty project. Her expertise includes environmental justice, water governance, and infrastructure and socio-spatial inequality. Meehan’s current research project, Plumbing Poverty, was selected for a prestigious European Research Council award and is funded by the UKRI Horizon Europe Guarantee (2023-2028). A two-time Fulbright scholar and former US Peace Corps Volunteer, Meehan has lived and worked in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, the US Southwest, and now England. Her research has appeared in notable outlets such as Science, PNAS, Geoforum, WIREs Water, and the Annals of the American Association of Geographers. She is coauthor of Water: A Critical Introduction (Wiley, 2023) and is finishing a book about the water crisis in Mexico City and its less visible struggles over social reproduction, state power, and household labor.