focuses on how privatisation has changed coverage, affordability and the concentration of access to water on the part of the … examine the pre- and post-privatisation periods. Close inspection of the household surveys reveals that access to water by low … in the bottom quintiles of the population in the cities where water was privatised, and thus access to water is more …

rural areas. In this review of the literature on access to water and women’s work in low-income urban areas of the global … their inadequate access to water. We identify the main modes of access to water and their possible infl uence on womenâ … household level. We conclude that the global ï¬gures on improved access to water in urban areas focus only on the technology of …