“…The most commonly accepted metric of accessibility from the United Nations and the World Health Organization includes the proportion of the population with water coverage (WHO/UNICEF JMP, 2021). Previous research measures these aspects in terms of source improvements (Mahama et al, 2014; Osei-Kyei and Chan, 2015), physical attributes such as the time taken for water collection, distance from the source, type of source (Devi and Bostoen, 2009; Majuru et al, 2016), availability and reliability (Smiley, 2017), and societal and financial groupings with access to water (Flores et al, 2013). The discourse on the accessibility and affordability of drinking water became a mainstream item following the UN’s resolution in 2010, which had set out the right to water in terms of sufficiency, safety, acceptability, within physical reach, and affordability (Cassivi et al, 2021).…”