Global water resources are degraded through mismanagement and climate change. Complete mitigation is not possible and some of the damages are effectively irreversible, leading to an unavoidable increase of water scarcity, coining the term water bankruptcy.\u00a0 This calls for a change in water governance that addresses unavoidable damage instead of treating the problem like a short-term crisis.<\/p>\n
There are many promising strategies like managed aquifer recharge, nature-based solutions (e.g. wetlands) and a change in agricultural practices, but the problem can\u2019t be reduced to a purely technical one. Instead, it is important to highlight that strong water-society relations lead to an inherently political problem<\/p>\n
For an equity-based transition towards bankruptcy management<\/strong>, management decisions must be embedded in a policy framework ensuring water is allocated legitimately.<\/p>\n I consider looking at how demand side reallocation through prioritizing basic needs can be assessed and implemented to adapt to diminishing water resources in a socially just way.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n References:<\/p>\n [1] Madani, K. (2026). Global Water Bankruptcy: Living Beyond Our Hydrological Means in the Post Crisis Era. United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU INWEH). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53328\/inr26kam001<\/a><\/p>\n [2] Linton, J., & Budds, J. (2014). The hydrosocial cycle: Defining and mobilizing a relational-dialectical approach to water. Geoforum, 57, 170\u2013180. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.geoforum.2013.10.008<\/a><\/p>\n [3] Gouveia, A. G. de, Britto, A. L. N. de P., & Formiga-Johnsson, R. M. (2023). Ciclos, territ\u00f3rios e escassez hidrossociais na constru\u00e7\u00e3o de desigualdades e exclus\u00e3o do acesso \u00e0 \u00e1gua: uma revis\u00e3o sistem\u00e1tica integrativa. Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, 62. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5380\/dma.v62i0.83893<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Global water resources are degraded through mismanagement and climate change. Complete mitigation is not possible and some of the damages are effectively irreversible, leading to an unavoidable increase of water scarcity, coining the term water bankruptcy.\u00a0 This calls for a change in water governance that addresses unavoidable damage instead of treating the problem like aContinue reading “Equity-Based Transition towards Bankruptcy Management”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-poster-ideas-2026"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncertain2degrees.blogs.uni-hamburg.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncertain2degrees.blogs.uni-hamburg.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncertain2degrees.blogs.uni-hamburg.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncertain2degrees.blogs.uni-hamburg.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncertain2degrees.blogs.uni-hamburg.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uncertain2degrees.blogs.uni-hamburg.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4376,"href":"https:\/\/uncertain2degrees.blogs.uni-hamburg.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions\/4376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncertain2degrees.blogs.uni-hamburg.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncertain2degrees.blogs.uni-hamburg.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncertain2degrees.blogs.uni-hamburg.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}