Untangling the vicious cycle around water and poverty

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dc.contributorRecursos Hídricos y Desarrollo Sosteniblees_ES
dc.contributorHistoria e Instituciones Económicas (HIE)es_ES
dc.contributor.authorGarcía-López, Marcos-
dc.contributor.authorCuadrado-Quesada, Gabriela-
dc.contributor.authorMontaño, Borja-
dc.contributor.otherUniversidad de Alicante. Departamento de Análisis Económico Aplicadoes_ES
dc.contributor.otherUniversidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario del Agua y las Ciencias Ambientaleses_ES
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-14T07:31:03Z-
dc.date.available2023-09-14T07:31:03Z-
dc.date.issued2023-09-13-
dc.identifier.citationSustainable Development. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.2753es_ES
dc.identifier.issn0968-0802 (Print)-
dc.identifier.issn1099-1719 (Online)-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10045/137180-
dc.description.abstractDespite the recent improvements, there is still a problem of access to WASH services. This problem access is linked to poverty and inequality, which in turn cause difficulties in accessing water, thus creating a vicious cycle. This article analyses this vicious cycle using data from international organisations related to these issues. These data show how the lack of water access leads to limitations for households, which are deprived of employment or/and education due to the difficulty in obtaining water. This opportunity cost is the main mechanism through which the feedback between lack of access to water and economic poverty occurs. Not being able to obtain employment or/and education makes it impossible to get out of a precarious situation, which prevents the wider society to benefit from any economic gain, which in turn slows down the achievement of the goal of guaranteeing access to water for all. The responsibility lies with national and international institutions, which should not only focus on obtaining the necessary financial resources for infrastructure improvements, but also on having adequate governance to ensure water sustainability and equity.es_ES
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was financed by the Office of the Vice President of Research and Knowledge Transfer of the University of Alicante, Spain (Marcos García-López has a scholarship for The Training of University Teachers from the University of Alicante [UAFPU2019-16]).es_ES
dc.languageenges_ES
dc.publisherERP Environmentes_ES
dc.publisherJohn Wiley & Sonses_ES
dc.rights© 2023 The Authors. Sustainable Development published by ERP Environment and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.es_ES
dc.subjectEconomic povertyes_ES
dc.subjectHuman capitales_ES
dc.subjectInequalityes_ES
dc.subjectWASH services accesses_ES
dc.subjectWater-economy vicious cyclees_ES
dc.titleUntangling the vicious cycle around water and povertyes_ES
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlees_ES
dc.peerreviewedsies_ES
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/sd.2753-
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://doi.org/10.1002/sd.2753es_ES
dc.rights.accessRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesses_ES
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