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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Autor: Pérez Foguet, Agustí|||0000-0002-2737-4710
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
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 abierto
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
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spelling Broadening the water affordability approach to monitor the human right to waterPérez Foguet, Agustí|||0000-0002-2737-4710Water-supply -- Human rightsHuman rights to water and sanitationWater povertySustainable development goalsTechnical building codesInstantaneous water flowIntermittent water supplyAigua -- Drets humansAigua -- AbastamentÀrees temàtiques de la UPC::Desenvolupament humà i sostenible::Desenvolupament humà::Aigua i sanejamentMultidimensional 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.Award-winningElsevier20232023-12-0120242024-03-05journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2117/403731https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104573reponame:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPCinstname:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/4037312026-05-27T15:37:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Broadening the water affordability approach to monitor the human right to water
title Broadening the water affordability approach to monitor the human right to water
spellingShingle Broadening the water affordability approach to monitor the human right to water
Pérez Foguet, Agustí|||0000-0002-2737-4710
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
title_short Broadening the water affordability approach to monitor the human right to water
title_full Broadening the water affordability approach to monitor the human right to water
title_fullStr Broadening the water affordability approach to monitor the human right to water
title_full_unstemmed Broadening the water affordability approach to monitor the human right to water
title_sort Broadening the water affordability approach to monitor the human right to water
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Pérez Foguet, Agustí|||0000-0002-2737-4710
author Pérez Foguet, Agustí|||0000-0002-2737-4710
author_facet Pérez Foguet, Agustí|||0000-0002-2737-4710
author_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv 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
topic 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
description 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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