Water Security: A Genealogy of Emerging Discourses

Staddon, Chad; James, Nick

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-7323-3_18

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“…Similarly, Linton (2010) suggests that access to water as a human right should be re-formulated as the right to be involved in decisions that affect the way in which people and water interact. 2 Applying this more relational perspective on household water insecurity derived from Jepson et al 2017, Staddon and James (2014) and others, it is possible to analyze the cultural, social and political relationswhat they refer to as the 'human capabilities'behind the securing (or not) of the services we require from water (e.g., hydration, cleanliness, etc.). In other words, the hydro-social model of defining water security in relation to DRWH adoption trends takes into account households' interactions with other actors (private suppliers, government agencies, NGOs, the physical environment, etc.)…”

Section: Water Security and Drwhmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There are many different ways of defining and measuring water security in the academic literature (see Bakker, 2012;Scott et al, 2013;Staddon & James, 2014;Sun, Staddon, & Chen, 2016 for reviews). Webb and Iskandraani (1998, p. 4) offer the following definition: 'access by all individuals at all times to sufficient safe water for health and productive life'.…”

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Why doesn’t every family practice rainwater harvesting? Factors that affect the decision to adopt rainwater harvesting as a household water security strategy in central Uganda

Staddon

Rogers

Warriner

et al. 2018

Water International

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This article investigates the reasons householders do, and don't, adopt domestic rainwater harvesting (DRWH). Using a mixedmethods research approach, we collected data in three districts in central Uganda. Factors that emerged as important with respect to uptake of DWRH to address water shortage, especially at the household scale, include the work of intermediary organizations, finance mechanisms, life course dynamics and land tenure.

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Section: Water Security and Drwhmentioning

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Section: Water Security and Drwhmentioning

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Why doesn’t every family practice rainwater harvesting? Factors that affect the decision to adopt rainwater harvesting as a household water security strategy in central Uganda

Staddon

Rogers

Warriner

et al. 2018

Water International

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“…Originally considered by academics and practitioners within the framework of sustainable water resources, the paradigm of water security emerged within policy and scholarly discourse over the past two decades in an effort to move beyond simply balancing supply and demand, to include (1) relations between water scarcity and geo-political conflict [17]; (2) the centrality of water to other fundamental necessities such as food [18][19][20], energy [21], and the natural environment [22]; and (3) to address the linkage between water supply and climate change [23]. Whereas previous understandings of water-society problems were largely technocratic and engineering centric, the new paradigm includes social, economic, and political aspects that converge to secure (or disrupt) sufficient supplies of water [24]. The new paradigm, then, mimics the approaches advocated in the field of political ecology and concurs that environmental change can only be understood through scrutiny of the political and social structures in which they are embedded [25].…”

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Challenges to Water Security along the “Emerald Coast”: A Political Ecology of Local Water Governance in Nicaragua

LaVanchy

Romano

Taylor

2017

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Despite being a water-rich country, Nicaragua struggles to secure clean water access for many of its residents. In addition to distributional and water quality issues, a prolonged drought affecting all regions of the country has compounded preexisting governance challenges to ensuring rural water needs. This article focuses on a rural community along the southwest Pacific Coast of Tola, Nicaragua, where tourism development and drought converge to produce and exacerbate water insecurity. This article examines this water insecurity in the context of two recent national water laws in Nicaragua (passed in 2007 and 2010 respectively) that sought to provide a more comprehensive legal framework for freshwater water governance. Drawing upon semi-structured interviews and groundwater and meteorological data, we contend that water laws have not effectively mediated the hydrological effects of prolonged drought and tourism development, resulting in pronounced water insecurity for local populations in Tola. We cast the findings of this research as relevant to other water insecure areas in Latin America where industry development and weak policy implementation impact the creation and resolution of local water security-including insecurity compounded by increased climatic variability.

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“…Water security is a matter of global importance. Defining this complex and often contested concept has been also been attempted from within many conceptual domains, and assessing security has occurred at multiple spatial scales [1][2][3][4]. Research and policy with Indigenous peoples also frequently address water security [5][6][7][8][9][10].…”

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Water is Medicine: Reimagining Water Security through Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Relationships to Treated and Traditional Water Sources in Yukon, Canada

Wilson

Harris

Joseph-Rear³

et al. 2019

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There is growing acknowledgement that the material dimensions of water security alone are inadequate; we also need to engage with a broader set of hydrosocial relationships. Indeed, more holistic approaches are needed to explain Indigenous peoples’ relationships to water including the use of traditional water sources such as mountain creeks and springs. In this paper, we seek to reimagine water security through a case study of Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in’s relationships to both treated and traditional water sources throughout the First Nation’s traditional territory in Yukon, Canada. Through community-based research including interviews with Elders and other community members, we examine the importance of traditional water sources for meeting important health requirements including physical, spiritual and cultural wellbeing. This intervention contributes to ongoing debates about what it means to secure safe and affordable water in three key ways: First, we argue that Indigenous water relations invite a shift towards more a holistic understanding of water security; second, we contend that settler colonial politics should be understood as a root cause of water insecurity; finally, we explore how Two-Eyed Seeing can be applied as an alternative to the ‘integration’ of Western scientific and Indigenous approaches to drinking water.

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Water Security: A Genealogy of Emerging Discourses

Cited by 12 publications

References 13 publications

Why doesn’t every family practice rainwater harvesting? Factors that affect the decision to adopt rainwater harvesting as a household water security strategy in central Uganda

Why doesn’t every family practice rainwater harvesting? Factors that affect the decision to adopt rainwater harvesting as a household water security strategy in central Uganda

Challenges to Water Security along the “Emerald Coast”: A Political Ecology of Local Water Governance in Nicaragua

Water is Medicine: Reimagining Water Security through Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Relationships to Treated and Traditional Water Sources in Yukon, Canada

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