Access to water in a Nairobi slum: women's work and institutional learning

Crow, Ben; Odaba, Edmond

doi:10.1080/02508060.2010.533344

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“…Recognition, the cultural dimension of justice, refers to acknowledging and respecting various forms of dealing with, organizing around, and talking about water. This has to do with diversity, identity and culture, and relates primarily to forms of injustice that deny or discriminate against particular socially and culturally embedded rules and practices of water management and control (e.g, Crow & Odaba, 2010;Zwarteveen, 2010). Granting autonomy to groups of people or water user communities to devise and apply their own water rules addresses a form of cultural recognition, as does the acceptance and recognition of women, indigenous and peasant users and leaders as legitimate water actors.…”

Section: Connecting Struggles For Redistribution Recognition Particmentioning

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Defining, researching and struggling for water justice: some conceptual building blocks for research and action

Zwarteveen

Boelens

2014

Water International

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This article provides a framework for understanding water problems as problems of justice. Drawing on wider (environmental) justice approaches, informed by interdisciplinary ontologies that define water as simultaneously natural (material) and social, and based on an explicit acceptance of water problems as always contested, the article posits that water justice is embedded and specific to historical and socio-cultural contexts. Water justice includes but transcends questions of distribution to include those of cultural recognition and political participation, and is intimately linked to the integrity of ecosystems. Justice requires the creative building of bridges and alliances across differences.

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Section: Connecting Struggles For Redistribution Recognition Particmentioning

confidence: 99%

Defining, researching and struggling for water justice: some conceptual building blocks for research and action

Zwarteveen

Boelens

2014

Water International

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196

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“…In households where it is essential to store water when the supply is intermittent, the chances of that water becoming contaminated increases (Wright, Gundry, and Conroy 2004). Reduced access to water due to intermittent supply can lead to prioritisation of the available water for drinking and less water available for other important tasks, like washing hands, that will have important hygiene and public health implications (Crow and Odaba 2010;WHO 2008). For piped water, intermittent flow increases the risk of recontamination (Kumpel andNelson 2014, 2016;Satapathy 2014;WHO 2008)…”

Section: Reliabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The difference a day can make: The temporal dynamics of drinking water access and quality in urban slums

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Adams

2019

Science of The Total Environment

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In urban slumshome to approximately 1 billion people worldwide-access to clean drinking water is woefully inadequate despite the United Nations' declaration that access to safe water is a fundamental human right. Households in slums are frequently forced to rely on multiple drinking water sources to meet their needs. Numerous factors influence choice of water source, including water quality, availability, reliability, and affordability. These factors are not temporally static, but rather will vary over multiple timescales (from sub-daily changes to annual changes and beyond) in response to changes in the water source itself and changes in the household's ability to use that source. For example, the cost of water can change over time in response to water availability (e.g. rainy season versus dry season) and a slum household's ability to pay for water will often change over time in response to changes in household income. However, existing national and global monitoring of safe water access, including Sustainable Development Goal 6, overlook these temporal dynamics of water access, quality and health risk in slums. This paper proposes a research agenda for exploring temporal changes in drinking water access and quality in urban slums and their potential influence on health risk. It argues that in the design of research studies, policy interventions, and drinking water monitoring aimed at improving access and health in urban slums, temporal dynamics 2 should be considered over at least three interlinked time scales: short-term (from sub-daily to week-to-week), medium-term (from month-to-month to season-toseason) and long-term (from year-to-year). The paper concludes with recommendations for future research on temporal dynamics of drinking water and health in slums.

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“…The association of physical resources, such as having water piped into the home (i.e., increased ease of access through a physical resource) has been associated with higher rates of water consumption (Howard & Bartram, 2003, as cited in Mahama et al, 2014, whereas sharing piped water (e.g., tenants in the same building with a single meter) has been associated with lower rates of consumption (Akdim, El Harchaoui, Laaouane, & Soydan, 2012). In some contexts, having physical resources to store water (e.g., water drums, cisterns, tanks) as well as the financial resources (e.g., savings) to purchase these items can affect both short-and long-term access to water (i.e., immediate access and ability to store water; Crow & Odaba, 2010;Mason, 2012). Finally, social resources such as relationships can improve water-related outcomes in some settings (Wutich & Ragsdale, 2008).…”

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Examining Relationships between Household Resources and Water Security in an Urban Philippine Community

Mason

2014

Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research

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Access to water in a Nairobi slum: women's work and institutional learning

Cited by 43 publications

References 6 publications

Defining, researching and struggling for water justice: some conceptual building blocks for research and action

Defining, researching and struggling for water justice: some conceptual building blocks for research and action

The difference a day can make: The temporal dynamics of drinking water access and quality in urban slums

Examining Relationships between Household Resources and Water Security in an Urban Philippine Community

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