Background Estimates of the effectiveness of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)
interventions that provide high levels of service on childhood diarrhoea are scarce. We …

Gender is not accurately captured by the traditional male and female dichotomy of sex.
Instead, it is a complex social system that structures the life experience of all human beings …

There is a well‐established connection among water quality, sanitation, and physical health.
The potentially important relationship between water and mental health is considerably less …

Centralized water infrastructure has, over the last century, brought safe and reliable drinking
water to much of the world. But climate change, combined with aging and underfunded …

Background Lack of access to clean water has well known implications for communicable
disease risks, but the broader construct of water insecurity is little studied, and its mental …

Objectives Over half of the world's population (4 billion people) experience severe water
scarcity at least one month per year, while half a billion people experience severe water …

Informed by decades of literature, water interventions increasingly deploy “gender‐sensitive”
or even “gender transformative” approaches that seek to redress the disproportionate harms …

Water insecurity is a critical public-health challenge in Africa's urban informal settlements,
where most of the population often lacks access to household taps. In these settings, water …

Plants can suppress the growth of other plants by modifying soil properties. These negative
plant–soil feedbacks are often species‐specific, suggesting that some plants possess …

We extend the conceptualization of the social and health burdens of household water
insecurity on children beyond the traditional narrow lens of microbiological pathogens and …