There is a well‐established connection among water quality, sanitation, and physical health.
The potentially important relationship between water and mental health is considerably less …

We reviewed the existing literature documenting the association between water insecurity
and gender‐based violence to (1) describe the characteristics and contexts of available …

Objective Progress towards equitable and sufficient water has primarily been measured by
population-level data on water availability. However, higher-resolution measures of water …

Water is imperative for nutrition and health, economic productivity, and political stability; it
also holds cultural and symbolic meanings and functions. Household water insecurity is an …

Water is an essential nutrient that has primarily been considered in terms of its physiological
necessity. But reliable access to water in sufficient quantities and quality is also critical for …

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 …

Background We are facing a global water crisis. However, because most water indicators
assess physical availability or infrastructure in aggregate, knowing which sociodemographic …

Informed by decades of literature, water interventions increasingly deploy “gender‐sensitive”
or even “gender transformative” approaches that seek to redress the disproportionate harms …

Hand hygiene is critical for reducing transmission of communicable diseases, as we are so
acutely aware during the COVID-19 pandemic. UNICEF has identified behaviour change …

We extend the conceptualization of the social and health burdens of household water
insecurity on children beyond the traditional narrow lens of microbiological pathogens and …