{"id":280,"date":"2020-04-20T09:08:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T06:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/envirolatam\/?p=280"},"modified":"2020-04-20T09:08:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T06:08:55","slug":"not-everyone-has-the-privilege-to-wash-the-hands-covid-19-and-unequal-access-to-water-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/envirolatam\/2020\/04\/20\/not-everyone-has-the-privilege-to-wash-the-hands-covid-19-and-unequal-access-to-water-in-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Not everyone has the privilege to wash the hands: Covid\u201319 and unequal access to water in Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Anna Heikkinen<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_283\" style=\"width: 634px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-283\" class=\"size-full wp-image-283\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/envirolatam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/85\/2020\/04\/Santiago.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/envirolatam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/85\/2020\/04\/Santiago.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/envirolatam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/85\/2020\/04\/Santiago-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santiago de Chile, February 2020. Chile is experiencing a severe mega drought for the tenth consecutive year. Marginalized urban neighborhoods across Latin American megacities are extremely vulnerable in front of Covid-19 as water scarcity deepens. Photo: Anna Heikkinen<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Water has become a vital weapon in the battle against coronavirus. Since the prorogation of Covid-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced \u201cwashing your hands frequently\u201d as a principal <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/diseases\/novel-coronavirus-2019\/advice-for-public\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">protective measure<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to slow down the transmission. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/coronavirus\/everything-you-need-know-about-washing-your-hands-protect-against-coronavirus-covid-19\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unicef<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> further instructed to wash the hands throughout under running water with soap for at least 20 seconds \u2013 the time it takes to sing \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d twice.\u00a0 Social media feeds soon went viral on videos of singing people, obeying their civic duty to prevent the spread of coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile in Latin America many people have been asking \u2013 how to follow these protective measures if there is no water?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Inter-American Development Bank (BID), 34 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/publications.iadb.org\/es\/publicacion\/15610\/america-latina-y-el-caribe-agua-y-saneamiento-genero\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">lack access to potable water<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and 106 million have deficiencies in basic sanitation. In 2017, the countries with major <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paho.org\/hq\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=15601:nearly-16-million-people-still-practice-open-defecation-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean&amp;Itemid=1926&amp;lang=en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">pitfalls in basic sanitation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> were Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Haiti, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The conditions to follow hygiene are not equal for everyone even within the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. A UN\/WHO joint program report shows that there is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/washdata.org\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/reports\/2018-01\/JMP-2017-Regional-snapshot-UNICEF%20TACRO.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a deep gap between basic drinking water services and sanitation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> between urban and rural regions. In 2015, 68% of the rural population lacked safely managed sanitation and 75% had deficient potable water services. Moreover, poor urban neighborhoods in Latin American megacities often suffer from severe difficulties in access to adequate quality and quantity of water.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Peru\u2019s capital of Lima, 700,000 people living in the poorest regions of the city are facing the coronavirus without proper access to clean water. In the absence of municipal water services, residents of the peripheral districts must buy water from tank trucks. The cost of tanked water per cubic meter can be up to ten times higher than in the wealthier parts of the city connected to the municipal water network. In January 2020, the investigative journalism platform, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ojo-P\u00fablico<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, ordered <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ojo-publico.com\/especiales\/lima-lucha-contra-coronavirus-con-agua-turbia\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a quality analysis of tanked water<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in one of the remote districts of Lima. The analysis revealed high quantities of fecal bacteria, lead and other substances posing risks for health.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Besides water pollution, climate change is posing further pressure on water supplies in Latin America. Prolonged droughts and other extreme weather events have become more common, deepening water scarcities in many parts of the continent. In the middle of the coronavirus crisis, Mexico announced <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gob.mx\/conagua\/prensa\/publica-la-conagua-acuerdo-de-inicio-de-emergencia-por-ocurrencia-de-sequia-severa-extrema-o-excepcional\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a state of emergency due to extreme droughts<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0 Meanwhile Chile is struggling with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchile.cl\/noticias\/162069\/escasez-hidrica-en-tiempos-de-covid-19\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">mega droughts<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for the tenth year in a row. Currently in Mexico over 10 million and in Chile thousands of households lack daily access to potable water. Rural and poor urban populations and indigenous people are in the most vulnerable position in losing access to clean water as the droughts intensify.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While climate change is aggravating water scarcity across Latin America amidst coronavirus, the roots of the problem lie elsewhere. In many Latin American countries water is distributed highly unequally between different sectors and groups of society. Water use is often prioritized for economically productive activities such as extractive industries, export agriculture and forestry or prosperous urban neighborhoods. This means that during crises like climate change or coronapandemic, there will always be water for those who can afford to pay for it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Latin America is one of the most unequal regions in the world. The income gaps and access to basic services between different groups of people are steep. Covid-19, together with climate change, have shed light on these deeply rooted inequalities, including unequal access to water. Now for many, luxuries such as following the hygienic guidelines of washing the hands to prevent spread of infectious diseases, are out of research. Without thinking of new ways for more just and equal water management \u2013 the coronavirus risks leaving Latin America with an even more profound water crisis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bio: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anna Heikkinen is a doctoral researcher in Development Studies at the University of Helsinki. 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