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The Social Flows of Water in the Global South: Recognizing the Water-Gender-Health ‘Nexus’

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Water, Energy, Food and People Across the Global South

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Water is vital to human life. With it, we thrive, along with our crops, our domesticated animals, our societies and our civilization. Without it, we die in as few as three days. For humanity, water is both a biological and social imperative, and both our history and our current geopolitical landscape are shaped by it to an extent that is seldom recognized or acknowledged.

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  1. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Amanda Leo, Elizabeth Lougheed & Larry A. Swatuk

  2. University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

    Joanna Fatch

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  1. School of Environment, Enterprise and Development, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Larry A. Swatuk

  2. Coady International Institute, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Corrine Cash

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Leo, A., Lougheed, E., Swatuk, L.A., Fatch, J. (2018). The Social Flows of Water in the Global South: Recognizing the Water-Gender-Health ‘Nexus’. In: Swatuk, L., Cash, C. (eds) Water, Energy, Food and People Across the Global South. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64024-2_7

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