Centralized water infrastructure has, over the last century, brought safe and reliable drinking water to much of the world. But climate change, combined with aging and underfunded …
Mega-damming, pollution and depletion endanger rivers worldwide. Meanwhile, modernist imaginaries of ordering 'unruly waters and humans' have become cornerstones of hydraulic …
Safe, reliable, and equitable water access is critical to human health and livelihoods. In the United States, an estimated 471,000 households or 1.1 million individuals lack a piped …
S Deitz, K Meehan - Annals of the American Association of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Household water insecurity is a global threat to human health and development, yet existing metrics lack a systematic consideration of geographic inequality and spatial variation. In this …
N Millington, S Scheba - International Journal of Urban and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract From 2015 to 2018, Cape Town, South Africa, was marked by fears of a water crisis in which the city's taps threatened to run dry. We argue in this article that Cape Town's crisis …
Indigenous peoples experience water insecurity disproportionately. There are many parallels between the injustices experienced by racialized and marginalized populations …
Objectives Over half of the world's population (4 billion people) experience severe water scarcity at least one month per year, while half a billion people experience severe water …
T Octavianti, C Staddon - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Scholars and practitioners have been working on methodologies to measure water security at a variety of scale and focus. In this paper, we critically examine the landscape of water …
Highlights•Climate change presents new challenges for centralised water infrastructure.•New technologies offer modular, adaptive, and decentralised water supply …