Description

Poverty and Water Security - Understanding How Water Affects the Poor stimulates debate and improved understanding of the critical importance of water security in the lives of the world's poor and provides a conceptual framework to help explain the relationship between poverty and water security. It also proposes constructive steps towards improving water security for the world's poor.

This paper is no. 2 in the Water for All publication series.

Contents

• Abbreviations
• Setting the Scene
• The International Development Context
• The Basic Picture
• Understanding Poverty and Water Security
• Steps Toward Water Security for the Poor
• References