ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on a wide range of justice concerns related to freshwater. Tracing social and spatial differences, from the neighbourhood to the global scale, and between the global North and South, is one way to investigate water-related inequalities. Water justice considerations for drinking, sanitation, and productive uses must be identified, understood, and assessed in relation to a wide range of social and political factors, including gender, income, indigeneity, and race. 'Drought' and water scarcities are also often tied to a range of institutions, discourses, infrastructures, and processes that foreground justice considerations. Much recent work on water justice and equity has also highlighted the importance of infrastructures as key to consolidating differentiated water access, or conditions. While environmental justice considerations related to water appear to be increasingly recognized, how to best respond to these challenges is a source of ongoing debate.