Household water security

A household’s personal experience of their water needs

In the Atlas

• Household Water Insecurity

Related concepts:

• Water security
• Household water sharing

Publications:

• Development and validation protocol for an instrument to measure household water insecurity across cultures and ecologies: the Household Water InSecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale (2019)
  • Develops and validates an instrument to measure household water insecurity across cultures and ecologies: the Household Water InSecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale
• Progress in household water insecurity metrics: a cross-disciplinary approach (2017)
  • Provides overview of household insecurity metrics
• Advancing methods for research on household water insecurity: Studying entitlements and capabilities, socio-cultural dynamics, and political processes, institutions and governance (2017)
  • Proposes a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods to assess household water insecurity that can be widely adopted across cultural, geographic, and demographic contexts
• A novel household water insecurity scale: Procedures and psychometric analysis among postpartum women in western Kenya (2018)
  • Develops and validates a household water insecurity scale in western Kenya

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