Social and Environmental Justice and the Water-Energy Nexus: A Quest in Progress for Rural People
Social and Environmental Justice and the Water-Energy Nexus: A Quest in Progress for Rural People
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社会和环境正义以及水与能源的关系：农村人民正在进行的探索
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2015
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S. J. Harper
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Karen V. Harper;S. J. Harper
获得负担得起的和可靠的清洁水和能源是全世界所有人的经济发展、健康和福祉所必需的。无法获得、负担不起或不可靠的水和能源资源是社会和环境不公正现象，给穷人，特别是农村地区的穷人造成了不成比例的负担。此外，水和能源之间有着不可分割的联系：清洁水的供应和卫生需要电力，而电力生产需要大量的水。这种水-能源关系将人类的两种重要资源联系在一起，对经济问题的关注多于对人类或环境问题的关注。本文讨论了农村人口面临的社会和环境正义问题，他们很少或根本无法获得清洁水和负担得起的能源。基层在偏远社区和农村地区努力生产和提供清洁水和负担得起的能源的地方例子提供了旨在改善日常必要资源匮乏状况的创新。事实上，水与能源之间的关系是如此巨大，如果全球为建设维持环境资源的能力所作的努力继续滞后或无法发展，水与能源之间的关系就有可能进一步恶化。在国内和国际上，为了世界人口的可持续未来，水和能源的相互关联性不容忽视。
Access to affordable and reliable clean water and energy is necessary for economic development, health, and well-being of all people worldwide. Unavailable, unaffordable, or unreliable water and energy resources represent social and environmental injustices that disproportionately burden poor people, especially those in rural areas. Furthermore, there is an inextricable link between water and energy: clean water requires power for delivery and sanitation, and power production requires large amounts of water. This water-energy nexus connects two vital resources for humanity with more attention to economic concerns than to human or environmental issues. This paper addresses social and environmental justice issues that confront rural populations with little or no access to clean water and affordable energy. Local examples of grassroots efforts to produce and provide access to clean water and affordable energy in remote communities and rural areas offer innovations intended to ameliorate daily deprivation of necessary resources. Indeed, the water-energy nexus is so enormous, and risks further exacerbation if global efforts to build capacities to sustain environmental resources continue to lag or fail to develop. Domestically and internationally, the interconnectivity of water and energy cannot be ignored for a sustainable future for the world’s population.