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Household water sharing: A review of water gifts, exchanges, and transfers across cultures.
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- Water Security and Nutrition: Current Knowledge and Research Opportunities.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2021Review
- Food Insecurity and Water Insecurity in Rural Zimbabwe: Development of Multidimensional Household Measures.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Household water insecurity will complicate the ongoing COVID-19 response: Evidence from 29 sites in 23 low- and middle-income countries.International journal of hygiene and environmental health · 2021Article
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- Quarantine: A Period of Self-discovery and Motivation as Medical Student.JNMA; journal of the Nepal Medical Association · 2020Article
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- Cash water expenditures are associated with household water insecurity, food insecurity, and perceived stress in study sites across 20 low- and middle-income countries.The Science of the total environment · 2020Article
- An Assessment of Inter-Observer Agreement in Water Source Classification and Sanitary Risk Observations.Exposure and health · 2020Article
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Abstract
Water sharing offers insight into the everyday and, at times, invisible ties that bind people and households with water and to one another. Water sharing can take many forms, including so-called "pure gifts," balanced exchanges, and negative reciprocity. In this paper, we examine water sharing between households as a culturally-embedded practice that may be both need-based and symbolically meaningful. Drawing on a wide-ranging review of diverse literatures, we describe how households practice water sharing cross-culturally in the context of four livelihood strategies (hunter-gatherer, pastoralist, agricultural, and urban). We then explore how cross-cutting material conditions (risks and costs/benefits, infrastructure and technologies), socio-economic processes (social and political power, water entitlements, ethnicity and gender, territorial sovereignty), and cultural norms (moral economies of water, water ontologies, and religious beliefs) shape water sharing practices. Finally, we identify five new directions for future research on water sharing: conceptualization of water sharing; exploitation and status accumulation through water sharing, biocultural approaches to the health risks and benefits of water sharing, cultural meanings and socio-economic values of waters shared; and water sharing as a way to enact resistance and build alternative economies.
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