The household water insecurity nexus: Portraits of hardship and resilience in U.S-Mexico border colonias

This article contributes to the growing body of research examining complex experiences water insecurity in low-income households global north. I present a schematic, and evidence support it, for household water-insecurity nexus U.S-Mexico border colonias, according which brings forth, influences, interacts with number burdens. Drawing from eight months field communities that lack connections piped sewerage, rely on ethnographic portraiture demonstrate how at level exacerbates an array hardships experienced by families. These relate budgets, health, time, stress. In conversation other qualitative case studies presented fields geography, anthropology, sociology, argue is both patterned, it influences many beyond just quality supply, particular, each site are unique contexts such as culture, ecology. contend comprehensive view insecurity’s negative ramifications within strengthens arguments basic human right water, making them more urgent, bringing into sharper relief.