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- Title
Development and Validation of a Household Water Insecurity Scale for Northeast Brazil = Desenvolvimento e validação de uma escala de insegurança hídrica domiciliar para o Nordeste do Brasil.
- Authors
Jepson, Wendy; Tomaz, Paula; Consortium, Household Water Insecurity Experiences
- Abstract
Household water insecurity metrics represent an important advance in science and policy for measuring human water needs. Using cross-sectional data from 1,549 rural and urban households in the states of Ceará and Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, surveyed between 2017 and 2019, this study developed and validated a twelve-item household water insecurity experiences scale for Northeast Brazil (HWISE-NEB) for two recall periods (four weeks and four months). We then examined the links between household characteristics and household water insecurity. The HWISE-NEB scale was associated with structural factors (intermittency and unpredictability), with intermittency exerting the strongest effects across both recall periods. Percent of income dedicated to water expenditures has a weaker but significant association with household water insecurity across both recall periods. The results confirm that household water insecurity experiences are increasing in rural andurban areas, and they are associated with structural factors, not demographic factors, suggesting that policy remedies need to target water governance and performance as a way to address household-level water insecurity challenges. The validated scale provides a critical tool for researchers and policymakers to measure the prevalence of household water insecurity, benchmark progress to improve conditions of water insecurity, and assess the potential impacts of interventions and policies.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; RIO Grande do Norte (Brazil); CEARA (Brazil : State); HOUSEHOLDS; POLICY sciences; INCOME; RURAL geography; RURAL poor
- Publication
Journal of Latin American Geography, 2023, Vol 22, Issue 1, p83
- ISSN
1545-2476
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/lag.2023.a899555