tailieunhanh - Women’s water security: A gender perspective

A research study was conducted to know the water security issues including women. Since, in the changing security meanings of the 21 century, 'security' as a concept took different inferences. This water insecurity made women to suffer from many ideological concepts, lose human capital and girl child to lose their formal education. To know this water insecurity Water Insecurity Index was calculated using secondary data and other water security parameters were analyzed using primary data. Study revealed that in Dharwad district highest water insecurity was reported in Khalaghatagi taluk () which was facing more vulnerability with respect to women’s water insecurity and lowest in Dharwadtaluk () similarly highest insecurity in Belagavi district was reported in Chikkoditaluk (). The study also revealed that about per cent women were involved in water collection responsibilities, total time spent by a household for water collection in a week was about 14 hours and about 61 per cent respondents opined that quality of water was poor in summer. Insecurity index among women heightened that women face problem regarding water collection and management. As study identified vulnerable taluks in both district, suitable climate adoption measures should be developed and implemented. | 2020 9 1 616-623 EXCELLENT PUBLISHERS International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN 2319-7706 Volume 9 Number 1 2020 Journal homepage http Original Research Article https Women s Water Security A Gender Perspective Daneshwari Malladadavar and R. S. Poddar Department of Agricultural Economics University of Agricultural Sciences Dharwad - 580 005 Karnataka India Corresponding author ABSTRACT Keywords Water security Women vulnerability Water insecurity index Article Info Accepted 15 December 2019 Available Online 20 January 2020 A Research study was conducted to know the water security issues including women. Since in the changing security meanings of the 21 century security as a concept took different inferences. This water insecurity made women to suffer from many ideological concepts lose human capital and girl child to lose their formal education. To know this water insecurity Water Insecurity Index was calculated using secondary data and other water security parameters were analyzed using primary data. Study revealed that in Dharwad district highest water insecurity was reported in Khalaghatagi taluk which was facing more vulnerability with respect to women s water insecurity and lowest in Dharwadtaluk similarly highest insecurity in Belagavi district was reported in Chikkoditaluk . The study also revealed that about per cent women were involved in water collection responsibilities total time spent by a household for water collection in a week was about 14 hours and about 61 per cent respondents opined that quality of water was poor in summer. Insecurity index among women heightened that women face problem regarding water collection and management. As study identified vulnerable taluks in both district suitable climate adoption measures should be developed and implemented. Only 29 percent of sample respondents accessed drinking water from