Advancing human capabilities for water security: A relational approach

Jepson, Wendy; Budds, Jessica; Eichelberger, Laura; Harris, Leila M.; Norman, Emma S.; O’Reilly, Kathleen; Pearson, Amber L.; Shah, Sameer H.; Shinn, Jamie E.; Staddon, Chad; Stoler, Justin; Wutich, Amber; Young, Sera L.

doi:10.1016/j.wasec.2017.07.001

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“…Water security entails ensuring every citizen with the amount of quality water they need to safely live their everyday life [36]. In an urbanized area, amongst other aspects, unrestricted population growth [38,39], poor governance [40][41][42] and mismanagement of the water supply system [43] as well as social inequity [44][45][46] can result in water insecurity.…”

Section: Water Security In Kolkata Municipal Corporation Areamentioning

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An Overview of the Impacts of Land Use Land Cover Changes (1980–2014) on Urban Water Security of Kolkata

Mukherjee

Bebermeier

Schütt

2018

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Urban Water Security is essential in urban planning to manage cities' water infrastructures and strengthen their water stress resilience and adaptive capacities. Decision making, governance and socio-economic factors play important roles in achieving Urban Water Security. Kolkata is a growing megacity in a developing country, which is facing rising pressures on water-environmental provisions due to the rapid population growth and urbanization and resultant governance and infrastructural issues. This review focusses on Kolkata, which is facing critical water issues, as a case study. The study presents an overview of the urban water (in)security and its dimensions in Kolkata city, such as water consumption and distribution in the city along with the changing land use-land cover of the city area, based on the results obtained from the satellite data-based land use-land cover classification, available literature, and documents from public institutions.

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Section: Water Security In Kolkata Municipal Corporation Areamentioning

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An Overview of the Impacts of Land Use Land Cover Changes (1980–2014) on Urban Water Security of Kolkata

Mukherjee

Bebermeier

Schütt

2018

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“…More recently, Crow and Swallow () and Jepson et al . () have illustrated the need to view water in marginalized settings as a key factor in ameliorating poverty and fostering well‐being. What these scholars, among many others, ultimately share is the quest to understand how water‐development efforts can foster more just environments for those whose capacity to meet their basic needs and work towards realizing their broader aspirations is curtailed by deficiencies in water services.…”

Section: Understanding Water Services and Capabilities In Informal Urmentioning

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“…Although the utility of this understanding of development for the water sector has been recognized and discussed by scholars such as Mehta (), Goff and Crow (), Jepson et al . () and Crow and Swallow (), operationalization of the CA remains a challenge, in part because it is so ‘radically underspecified : there are a number of theoretical lacunae that can be filled in a variety of ways’ (Robeyns, : 353, original emphasis).…”

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“…The same may be claimed of many, if not most, cities in low-income settings. Such deficiencies have a range of effects on health (Konteh, 2009;De Albuquerque and Roaf, 2012), people's livelihoods (Nicol, 2000;Bhandari and Grant, 2007;Joy et al, 2014;Crow and Swallow, 2017), access to education and health care (United Nations, 2003;Koolwal and van de Walle, 2013;Marks et al, 2014;Subbaraman et al, 2015), and reflect asymmetries in power dynamics within households, localities, cities and beyond (Swyngedouw et al, 2002;Budds, 2013;Linton and Budds, 2014;Jepson et al, 2017).…”

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The Quest for Water, Rights and Freedoms: Informal Urban Settlements in India

Gimelli

Rogers

Bos

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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In this article, we draw on the narratives of residents and development workers to understand what freedoms hinder and enable access to water services in informal settlements in the Indian cities of Faridabad, Delhi and Mumbai. We show that although development practice and thinking in the water sector often frame water deficiencies as politically neutral technical and governance challenges, residents and development workers on the ground identify a lack of freedoms relating to first of all, residents’ rights to the city and its resources, and secondly, meaningful engagement between residents and the political establishment as key causes for inadequate access to water services. Our findings indicate that water‐service development efforts can be more effective if they include strategies to strengthen informal settlers’ rights to the city through a politicization of public engagement. We discuss the implications of our findings for practice and outline a future research agenda geared towards operationalizing our key findings.

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“…These include considering where such centralized infrastructure can be complemented with decentralized infrastructure, for example rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems. This is particularly noteworthy in countries with the potential to 'leap frog' the lock-in to centralized infrastructure systems that most 'Western' countries are experiencing and in doing so also consider the social practices, human capabilities and social relations that add further complexity to resolving water security issues (Jepson et al, 2017). RWH has been demonstrated as yielding multiple benefits as well as being an alternative water supply, with such benefits including stormwater attenuation, water autonomy and reducing energy consumption (Melville-Shreeve et al, 2016).…”

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Performance assessment and life cycle analysis of potable water production from harvested rainwater by a decentralized system

Yan

Ward

Butler

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Journal of Cleaner Production

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a b s t r a c tDecentralized rainwater harvesting (RWH) from roof runoff can complement the centralized supply of mains (drinking) water for a range of contexts, to assist in alleviating issues of water security. However, treatment to potable standard of harvested rainwater is not widespread. Consequently a comparative life cycle analysis (LCA) of decentralized and centralized potable water supply has not previously been undertaken. In this paper we describe a novel point-of-use (POU) treatment device, which was used to treat harvested rainwater to potable standard. We then provide a performance assessment for this system and an LCA with a comparison to centralized supply. Results of the performance assessment indicate a water saving efficiency (E T ) of between 0.6 and 100%, depending on rainfall (0.6 from April when rainfall was significantly below average). This highlights that the POU device was able to deal with the scale of roof runoff supply originating from a RWH system at a commercial building scale. The LCA results suggest that potable water produced from this decentralized RWH POU system currently performs more poorly than centralized water from an environmental perspective. Its impacts in most categories would be significantly reduced if the electricity consumed by the system were supplied from a renewable source such as solar PV or wind turbines instead of the UK grid. Priority should be given to optimizing the energy efficiency and exploring opportunities for combined use with renewable energy technologies in order to improve the environmental performance of POU treatment devices.

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Advancing human capabilities for water security: A relational approach

Cited by 172 publications

References 62 publications

An Overview of the Impacts of Land Use Land Cover Changes (1980–2014) on Urban Water Security of Kolkata

An Overview of the Impacts of Land Use Land Cover Changes (1980–2014) on Urban Water Security of Kolkata

The Quest for Water, Rights and Freedoms: Informal Urban Settlements in India

Performance assessment and life cycle analysis of potable water production from harvested rainwater by a decentralized system

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