scholarly journals Our Relationship to Water and Experience of Water Insecurity among Apsáalooke (Crow Indian) People, Montana

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 582
Author(s):  
Christine Martin ◽  
Vanessa W. Simonds ◽  
Sara L. Young ◽  
John Doyle ◽  
Myra Lefthand ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Safe Drinking Water ◽  
Water Access ◽  
Water Insecurity ◽  
Crow Indian ◽  
Water Uses ◽  
Over Time

Affordable access to safe drinking water is essential to community health, yet there is limited understanding of water insecurity among Native Americans. Therefore, the focus of this paper is to describe Apsáalooke (Crow Indian) tribal members’ experiences with water insecurity. For Apsáalooke people, local rivers and springs are still vitally important for traditional cultural activities. We interviewed 30 Native American adults living on the Crow Reservation in Southeastern Montana. Participants answered six open-ended interview questions about their water access, costs of obtaining water and changes in their domestic and traditional water uses. Participants emphasized how the use of water has changed over time and described the complex challenges associated with addressing water insecurity in their community, including the importance of considering the spiritual and cultural impacts of water insecurity on health. Water insecurity is a growing global problem and more attention and efforts are needed to find appropriate and affordable solutions.

scholarly journals Towards A Situated Urban Political Ecology Analysis of Packaged Drinking Water Supply

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Kooy ◽  
Carolin Walter
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Safe Drinking Water ◽  
Water Access ◽  
Urban Political Ecology ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Choices

The inclusion of packaged drinking water (PDW) as a potentially improved source of safe drinking water under Goal 6.1 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) reflects its growing significance in cities where piped water has never been universal or safe for drinking. Using the case of PDW in Jakarta, Indonesia, we call for theorizing the politics of PDW through a situated Urban Political Ecology (UPE) analysis of the wider urban water distributions in which it is inserted. We do so in order to interrogate the unevenness of individual “choices” for securing safe drinking water, and highlight the ambiguity of PDW’s impact on inequalities in access. We first review research on PDW supply to specify how dominant theoretical approaches used for understanding PDW supply through analyses of the individual making “choices” for drinking water are power neutral, and why this matters for achieving equitable water access. We illustrate these points through a case study of PDW consumption by low income residents in Jakarta, and then identify how a situated UPE framework can help attend to the uneven societal relations shaping different socio-material conditions, within which individual “choices” for PDW are made. For Jakarta, connecting choices of the individual to power relations shaping geographies of urban water access and risk explains the rise in PDW consumption by low income residents as a situated response to the uneven exposure of poorer residents to environmental hazards. We conclude with reflections on how this can inform interventions towards more just distributions of safe drinking water.

TUBEWELL INSTALLATION FOR ACCELERATING SAFE DRINKING WATER ACCESS IN BANGLADESH - HARNESSING LOCAL DRILLERS’ KNOWLEDGE

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prosun Bhattacharya ◽  
◽  
Kazi Matin Ahmed ◽  
Mattias von Brömssen ◽  
Gunnar Jacks
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Safe Drinking Water ◽  
Water Access

scholarly journals Design, performance, and demand for a novel in-line chlorine doser to increase safe water access

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie E. Powers ◽  
Cynthia McMurry ◽  
Sarah Gannon ◽  
Adam Drolet ◽  
Jared Oremo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Safe Drinking Water ◽  
Water Access ◽  
Safe Water ◽  
Technical Performance ◽  
Service Package ◽  
Chlorine Residual ◽  
Service Period ◽  
Sales Pitch

AbstractFinancially sustainable strategies are needed to increase access to safe drinking water in low-income settings. We designed a novel in-line chlorine doser that employs the Venturi principle to automatically add liquid chlorine at the point of water collection (tap outflows). The Venturi does not require electricity or moving parts, and users do not have to change the way they typically collect water. We field-tested the Venturi and assessed its technical performance and sales viability at water kiosks in Kisumu County, Kenya. We offered kiosk owners 6-month service packages to lease or lease-to-own the device; 27% of kiosks given a sales pitch committed to a service package. All but one kiosk paid in full during the 6-month service period and more than two-thirds purchased the device with payments totaling >$250 USD per kiosk. Kiosk customers could choose to purchase chlorinated or unchlorinated water from separate taps; 66% reported buying chlorinated water. Kiosk taps fitted with the Venturi had detectable free chlorine residual 97.6% of the time. The technical performance of the Venturi and effective demand from kiosks indicate high potential for the Venturi to increase safe water access in low-income communities.

Native American sports mascots activate negative stereotypes about contemporary Native Americans

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Focella ◽  
Jessica Whitehead ◽  
Jeff Stone ◽  
Stephanie Fryberg ◽  
Rebecca Covarrubias
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Negative Stereotypes

Native Americans and the Third World Strike at UC Berkeley

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-39
Author(s):  
LaNada War Jack
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Third World ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The University

The author reflects on her personal experience as a Native American at UC Berkeley in the 1960s as well as on her activism and important leadership roles in the 1969 Third World Liberation Front student strike, which had as its goal the creation of an interdisciplinary Third World College at the university.

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