Cisterns for life: climate adaptation policies for water provision and rural lives

Yuri Barreto, Diogo G.C. Britto, Bladimir Carrillo, Daniel Da Mata, Lucas Emanuel and Breno Sampaio

No wp-2025-97, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Billions of people worldwide travel long distances daily to fetch water that is often unsafe for human consumption. Climate change is expected to exacerbate this critical issue, which threatens the economic development of dry areas in addition to posing health risks. This paper evaluates a large-scale, low-cost climate adaptation programme that built one million rain-fed water storage cisterns in Brazil's poorest and most drought-prone region.

Keywords: Climate adaptation; Labour market; Water; Health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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