Lack of Safe Drinking Water for Lake Chapala Basin Communities in Mexico Inhibits Progress toward Sustainable Development Goals 3 and 6

Smith, Charlotte; Jackson, Kaitlyn; Peters, Hannah; Lima, Susana Herrera

doi:10.3390/ijerph17228328

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“…Although there are different barriers that hinder the consumption of drinking water in children, such as misperceptions, availability, and safety of drinking water [4,28,35,36,40,41], this study only explored the first ones; however, water safety has gained relevance in Mexico [42][43][44][45], particularly in Jalisco [40,41]. Despite the fact that this is a priority issue in public health, it is necessary to continue strengthening strategies to increase water consumption from other perspectives.…”

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Social Representations of Drinking Water in Schoolchildren and Parents from Two Schools in Zapopan, Mexico

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Childhood obesity and children being overweight has increased recently; although they are multi-causal problems, an unhealthy diet is a critical component. In Mexico, drinking water consumption in children from 9 to 18 years only reaches 30% of total fluid consumption. The aim of our study was to describe the social representations (SR) of drinking water in school-children and parents of two schools in Zapopan, Mexico. Associative free listing was used as an information gathering technique. Schoolchildren aged 8 to 12 years (n = 50) and parents (n = 23) from two elementary schools were selected by a convenience sampling from April to June 2015. A similarity analysis was performed using the co-occurrence index; with this, a similarity graph was obtained. Prototypical analysis was performed to explore the structure of the SR. Three dimensions were described in the children’s SR: a functional dimension related to health and nutrition, a practical dimension that describes the instruments used for its consumption, and a theoretical dimension that specifies the characteristics of water and its relationship with nature. In the parents’ SR, a functional dimension was also found; another dimension was described regarding the integral well-being that drinking water provides. A practical dimension describes the features related to its consumption. The investigation describes the structure of the water SR, which help to contextualize and explain the actions of schoolchildren and their parents regarding drinking water consumption.

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Social Representations of Drinking Water in Schoolchildren and Parents from Two Schools in Zapopan, Mexico

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“…When the lake water rose, it spewed sewage into the lake and onto the shores where children played, and locals washed and shore fished. This occurred again in 2004 and 2012 as a result of heavy rainfall and has generated concerns about the links between gastrointestinal infections, diarrhea, and acute kidney injury (35), and also widespread public anger.…”

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Anthropological perspectives on CKDnt in Mexico: time for a paradigm shift on the social determinants of health

Kierans

Padilla-Altamira²

2023

Front. Nephrol.

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In Mexico, the kidneys of individuals in poor and marginalized communities are failing with little warning and no explanation. Commonly referred to as chronic kidney disease of non-traditional origin (CKDnt), this new variant of kidney disease cannot be accounted for by conventional or discrete etiological explanations, but is instead understood to be a consequence of economic development, environmental degradation and precarious working and living conditions. Drawing on two interconnected ethnographic studies, and the intertwining problems of causation and care, this paper will (1) document the social conditions of disease emergence around Lake Chapala, Central Mexico, and (2) follow the haphazard routes kidney patients take to access resource-intensive biotechnical treatments. Its aim is to both challenge and reconceptualize social determinants as social relations in order to fully account for the profoundly contextual, temporal, and dynamic character of this condition, and to rethink opportunities for care and intervention.

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“…The provision of garrafones is unregulated. Both tap and garrafón water are shown to be contaminated by coliform bacteria (including E. coli), fecal matter, and arsenic (Smith et al., 2020).…”

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Failing kidneys: Hotspots, blind spots and biopolitics of indifference

Kierans,

Padilla‐Altamira

2023

Med Anthropol Q

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Chronic kidney disease of non‐traditional cause (CKDnt) is commonly associated with monocropping agriculture, heat stress and impoverished working conditions, referred to as CKDnt “hotspots.” The condition is also emerging in various sites of environmental contamination, raising questions as to whether multiple variants of the condition exist as a result of different ecologies and different human‐environment interactions. This paper examines the emergence of CKDnt around Lake Chapala in Mexico, where we document local efforts to gain recognition and reparation for CKDnt. We follow the ways patients, families and activists have mobilized specific and interlocking infrastructural failures to enact complaint and confront state inaction and neglect of their bodies, communities, and environments. Though their labors have formally achieved little, we discuss how they make visible a biopolitics of indifference, one bound to the production of structural “blindspots.”

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Lack of Safe Drinking Water for Lake Chapala Basin Communities in Mexico Inhibits Progress toward Sustainable Development Goals 3 and 6

Cited by 9 publications

References 10 publications

Social Representations of Drinking Water in Schoolchildren and Parents from Two Schools in Zapopan, Mexico

Social Representations of Drinking Water in Schoolchildren and Parents from Two Schools in Zapopan, Mexico

Anthropological perspectives on CKDnt in Mexico: time for a paradigm shift on the social determinants of health

Failing kidneys: Hotspots, blind spots and biopolitics of indifference

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