Farah Caswell is a part-time PhD student with the Centre for Sustainable Development. Outside of Cambridge, she is a Sustainability Engineer and Partner at Foster + Partners, with over 10 years of experience working to improve the sustainable and low-impact design of the practice’s projects. She is also a Chartered Environmentalist and Chartered Engineer. Previously, she graduated from Imperial College London with an MEng in Civil Engineering. Her focus will be on the future requirements necessary to promote sustainable desalination practices globally and the role of non-conventional water resources in promoting long-term water security in water-scarce countries.