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00:00 - Introduction: The Hidden Price Tag of Water
00:34 - The Chennai Study & The Concept of "Coping Costs"
01:00 - From MDGs to SDGs: The Shift to Measuring Affordability
02:03 - What Are Coping Costs? Observing Real-World Actions
03:14 - The Case Study: Chennai's Intermittent Water Supply
04:41 - The Five Main Categories of Coping Behaviors
05:13 - The Financial Impact: Average Monthly Coping Costs Revealed
05:50 - Deep Dive: Analyzing Collection, Purchase & Time Costs
07:38 - Deep Dive: Analyzing Pumping, Treatment & Storage Costs
09:24 - The Human Cost: Sickness & Hospitalization
10:13 - The Affordability Gap: The 15% Burden on the Poor
12:34 - Main Factors Driving Water Coping Costs
14:21 - Conclusion & Policy Implications
15:42 - Final Thought: The Water-Energy Nexus
The affordability of accessing clean water by examining coping costs in Chennai, India, aligning with Sustainable Development Goal 6.1. The authors, R.K. Amit and Subash Sasidharan, highlight how households engage in various strategies like collecting, pumping, treating, storing, and purchasing water due to unreliable and unsafe public supplies. Their research, based on a survey of 423 households, reveals that non-piped households incur higher coping costs than piped ones, and lower-income households bear a significantly disproportionate financial burden for accessing safe water. The study underscores the urgent need for policy interventions to enhance water affordability and reliability in developing nations.
I have BSME and MSME, and I am a Water Engineer by practice, trade, and researcher. Check out my article here:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acb662
All the data I'm sharing comes directly from a peer-reviewed article. For this educational review, I'm using brief quotations of the core findings—a common practice in articles and broadcasts. Of course, the source is linked for you below.
- 10.1016/j.resconrec.2018.11.003
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