International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Water Insecurity as Health Crisis: Everyday Embodiment and Gendered Vulnerability Among Girls in Ghana’s Upper West Region
In semi-arid Ghana, girls bear primary responsibility for household water collection in communities without on-premises access, a burden intensified by climate change associated with rising temperatures and frequent droughts. Yet little is known about how this responsibility shapes their embodied health and well-being. Guided by a political ecology of health framework, this qualitative study examined how water insecurity shapes girls’ physical, psychosocial, and neurological health in two communities, Wechiau and K …