Climate change to exacerbate the burden of water collection on women’s welfare globally

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Climate change to exacerbate the burden of water collection on women’s welfare globally

Climate change is aggravating water scarcity worldwide. In rural households lacking access to running water, women often bear the responsibility for its collection, with adverse effects on their well being through long daily time commitments, physical strain and mental distress. Here we show that rising temperatures will exacerbate this water collection burden globally. Using fixed-effects regression, we analyse the effect of climate conditions …