“…Many of the urban poor in the Global South rely on water sources outside their premises that are prone to contamination, especially during transport (Wright, Gundry, & Conroy, ). These sources include public standpipes, boreholes, sachet water, tanker‐truck services, and water from small‐scale vendors (Kjellén & McGranahan, , Stoler, , Dos Santos et al, ,), and are often insufficient, shared by many households, unsafe, or costly (Dos Santos, Ouédraogo, & Soura, ; Majuru, Suhrcke, & Hunter, ; Price, Adams, & Quilliam, ). Even when available, improved water sources often run intermittently or require long queuing times, thus forcing households to supplement with unsafe alternatives, a trend observed across Africa (eg, Adams, ; Dagdeviren & Robertson, ), Latin America (eg, Cifuentes & Rodriguez, ; Wutich, Beresford, & Carvajal, ), and Asia (eg, Cheng, ; Raina, Zhao, Wu, Kunwar, & Whittington, ; Truelove, ).…”