Buffering in the intra-household allocation of scarce water in urban Dhaka, Bangladesh
Household management of scarce water aligns to buffering theories, with women prioritising family members perceived to be vulnerable. These findings open new spaces to theorise how intra-household strategies of water allocation shape individual risk and safeguard human health, reconceptualise the dominant paradigm of negative experiences around living with water insecurity to encompass notions of care and shared wellbeing, and develop more sophisticated views of the mechanisms to connect embodied water insecurity to its individual-level health consequences in human biology.
Authors
- Amber Wutich (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4164-1632)
- Cindi SturtzSreetharan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7528-8991)
- Neetu Choudhary (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5854-229X)
- Sarah Trainer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4409-4777)
- Mohammad Jobayer Hossain (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6038-7938)
- Noor Kutubul Alam Siddiquee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3261-2573)
- Alexandra Brewis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3769-4205)
Institutions
- Center for Global Health (US)
- Arizona State University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Annals of Human Biology
- Published
- 2025-08-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03014460.2025.2537214
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.24
Funders
- National Science Foundation