That women play a central role in the provision, management, and safeguarding of water is one of the four … millions of women lack access to water for their basic needs. The objectives of this chapter are to summarize what is known … about women with respect to water and about water with respect to women as well as to provide a sense of the current debates …

communities are usually more affected, especially in low-income countries. Among them, women but particularly indigenous groups in … indigenous women. Our results show that overall indigenous women are the group most severely affected by droughts, decreasing …

time spent on water collection significantly decreases, leading to increased labor force participation of women. In this … though walking distances are considerably reduced, women still spend a lot of time waiting at the water source. Moreover, a … reduction in time to collect one water container induces women to collect a higher number of containers per day. Our results …

developing countries (LDCs). Women and girls are especially affected by those conditions. This chapter will review the … implications that the lack of access to water and sanitation poses to women and answer the following question: Are there effec …- tive instruments that can be used to tackle the lack of access to water and sanitation for women and girls? The authors …