Broadening the water affordability approach to monitor the human right to water
Multidimensional poverty measurements at the international level include the indicator of having access to safe drinking water within the optimal living standards. At the European level, though, the reference is to the overall affordability of the urban services provided to a household. As a multidi...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Data de publicação: | 2023 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repositório: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/403731 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://hdl.handle.net/2117/403731 https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104573 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Water-supply -- Human rights Human rights to water and sanitation Water poverty Sustainable development goals Technical building codes Instantaneous water flow Intermittent water supply Aigua -- Drets humans Aigua -- Abastament Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Desenvolupament humà i sostenible::Desenvolupament humà::Aigua i sanejament |
| Resumo: | Multidimensional poverty measurements at the international level include the indicator of having access to safe drinking water within the optimal living standards. At the European level, though, the reference is to the overall affordability of the urban services provided to a household. As a multidimensional concept, though, water poverty must include lack of access (or even poor access) to water services. This paper assumes that the lack of access to certain levels of water services should be considered poverty in access to water, and proposes a multidimensional characterization of levels of service that takes as a reference the specific normative component of the human right to water. In other words, poverty in access to water is matched with deprivation in the realization of a human right. To exemplify the approach, the paper presents a proposal for an evaluative framework for the case of a household in a dense urban area in southern Europe. |
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