Infrastructure is a necessary but insufficient condition to eliminate inequalities in access to water: Research of a rural community intervention in Northeast Brazil

Aleixo, Bernardo; Pena, João Luiz; Heller, Léo; Rezende, Sonaly

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.10.202

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“…These challenges have been largely overcome through the development of computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) approaches, as discussed by MacDonald et al 11 Prior to 2010, only a few articles reporting in detail or quantifying the use of multiple water sources had been published [12][13][14] but in recent years there has been a marked increase in research interest. 1,3,[15][16][17][18][19] The routine use of multiple household water sources is practiced across settings that vary in precipitation patterns, water resources, piped water availability, etc. For example, it has been reported in many countries across Southeast Asia, 17,[20][21][22] Sub-Saharan Africa, 2,3,12-16,22-24 North Africa, 25 Western Asia, 26 East Asia, 27 South Asia, 8,28 Oceania 1,11,19 , and Latin America.…”

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“…For example, it has been reported in many countries across Southeast Asia, 17,[20][21][22] Sub-Saharan Africa, 2,3,12-16,22-24 North Africa, 25 Western Asia, 26 East Asia, 27 South Asia, 8,28 Oceania 1,11,19 , and Latin America. 18,29 Use of multiple sources in wealthy countries typically involves tap water and bottled water for consumption and other indoor uses, with limited use of harvested rainwater, gray water or shallow well water for aquifer recharge, gardening, and irrigation. 30,31…”

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Addressing how multiple household water sources and uses build water resilience and support sustainable development

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The routine use of multiple water sources to meet household water needs is widely practiced and has been reported in many developing countries. However, it is typically neglected by implementers, development organizations, and researchers who tend to focus exclusively on the "main source of drinking water." In this Perspective, we explain the nature and scope of multiple water source use (MWSU) at the household level in developing countries. We also describe the implications of MWSU for human health and water resilience, and identify key knowledge gaps, risks, and opportunities associated with MWSU. Finally, we argue that understanding MWSU is feasible for researchers and implementers and is essential for properly designing research studies and water supply projects.npj Clean Water (2019) 2:6 ; https://doi.

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Section: Use Of Multiple Household Water Sources: Widespread Diversementioning

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Addressing how multiple household water sources and uses build water resilience and support sustainable development

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“…Van Houweling et al (2017 report that in rural Mozambique the provision of handpumps reinforced existing differences in political affiliation in communities, reinforcing social divides. Following a piped rural water supply intervention in North-East Brazil, some households continued collecting and using water from fecally contaminated sources including public taps and rainwater reservoirs due to non-acceptability of chlorinated water and preference for existing sources (Aleixo et al, 2019). Funder et al (2012) describe an intervention in Zambia that targeted the poorest households as beneficiaries, but whose access to the contested borehole was continuously overridden due to community decision-making processes dominated by more wealthy residents.…”

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Women’s vulnerability to climate-related risks to household water security in Centre-East, Burkina Faso

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Dakouré

2020

Climate and Development

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Variable climate conditions, resulting in periods of water scarcity and longer dry spells, or intense rainfall events, have serious implications for water and sanitation services. Climate change threatens to exacerbate these hazards, increasing risks to household water security, and associated impacts on health, wellbeing and livelihoods. These risks are not evenly distributed across individuals and communities, and there is a particular need to understand women's vulnerabilities and responses to these risks due to disproportionate impacts of poor water and sanitation conditions. This study used mixed-methods data collection to assess how vulnerabilities to climate-related risks to household water security are produced and vary among women in the Centre-East region, Burkina Faso, as well as capacities to respond. Gendered water-related roles and norms were found to drive vulnerabilities for women in the case study site particularly related to increasingly inadequate water availability during the dry season. Other social differences such as Mossi and Peul ethnicity which influence ways of using water, also contributed to women's differential vulnerability and capacities to respond. These findings show there is a need to consider how the development of 'climate resilient' water and sanitation services take social drivers of vulnerability into account.

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“…In clarifying the meaning of affordability, accessibility, availability and quality, the work of the UN Special Rapporteur has investigated the implementation of the human right to water at the intersection of institutions (governance and management models, including financing schemes and tariffs), physical characteristics (resource availability, infrastructures, typologies of services, and technologies), and processes (public participation, accountability, gender equality, nondiscrimination). One of the key message are the limits of merely infrastructural or supply‐side measures to ensure the human right to water (Aleixo, Pena, Heller, & Rezende, ). The UN jurisprudence cemented consensus on the fact that from a legal perspective, when we talk about the human right to water we refer to access to water for personal and domestic uses, generally on an individual or household level.…”

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An introduction to the human right to water: Law, politics, and beyond

Fantini

2019

WIREs Water

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In spite of its official recognition by the United Nations in 2010, the human right to water remains a contested notion as illustrated by three main debates: (a) the definition of its scope, content, and indicators to monitor its implementation; (b) the conceptual appropriateness and effectiveness of the human rights approach in countering water services privatization; (c) the call for decolonizing or decentering the western, liberal, individualistic, and anthropocentric approach of the human right to water. The article introduces the main themes and insights within these debates and concludes by pointing at potential future research at their intersection, in relation to (a) other species' rights, (b) culture and religion, and (c) technology and infrastructure. This article is categorized under: Human Water > Rights to Water Water and Life > Conservation, Management, and Awareness Human Water > Water Governance

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Infrastructure is a necessary but insufficient condition to eliminate inequalities in access to water: Research of a rural community intervention in Northeast Brazil

Cited by 48 publications

References 24 publications

Addressing how multiple household water sources and uses build water resilience and support sustainable development

Addressing how multiple household water sources and uses build water resilience and support sustainable development

Women’s vulnerability to climate-related risks to household water security in Centre-East, Burkina Faso

An introduction to the human right to water: Law, politics, and beyond

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