Water Justice
In 2010, the United Nations officially recognized access to water and sanitation as a ______.
What is a human right?
This was the study’s key environmental justice finding about who experiences the most flooding.
What is marginalized neighborhoods?
This is what the acronym U.S.G.S. stands for, the government agency where the article’s wetland ecologist authors conduct research.
What is the United States Geological Survey?
Sultana argues that achieving water justice requires building this kind of governance system, where decision-making is inclusive and participatory.
(from Water Justice)
What is water democracy?
Farhana Sultana argues that when water is treated as something to be bought and sold based on ability to pay, it becomes this type of economic good.
What is a commodity?
The analytic approach used in the study consisted of this many steps.
What is four?
Fill in the blank: “In response to ______ ______ ______, researchers explored opportunities for tidal wetland landward migration.”
What is sea level rise?
(Also accept: What are rising sea levels?)
The study’s projections for hazardous site flooding were primarily based on sea-level rise estimates for this future year.
(from Sea level rise and hazardous sites)
What is 2100?
This U.S. city became a national symbol of water injustice after residents were exposed to lead-contaminated drinking water due to political failure.
What is Flint, Michigan?
This percentage of coastal hazardous facilities is projected to be at risk due to sea level rise.
What is 11 percent?
Developed lands, steep topography, agriculture, pasture, and freshwater wetlands were identified in the study as these types of obstacles to tidal wetland migration.
What are common barriers?
This biome accounts for 2/3 of potential migration space and can easily transform into saltwater wetlands though intrusion.
What are freshwater wetlands
.In 2010, this country of a country of financial and political might was among the 41 that abstained from supporting the United Nations resolution recognizing water and sanitation as a human right
What is the United States/Canada?
(Also, some other developed countries)
This number of states contains the majority of the most at-risk hazardous sites.
What is seven?
Researchers evaluated restoration, protection, and green seawalls as examples of this type of climate adaptation strategy, abbreviated NbS.
What are Nature-Based Solutions?
This term describes someone who actively supports water justice through collective action, advocacy, and ethical responsibility.
(from Water Justice)
What is a “water warrior”?
According to Sultana, big engineering projects like dams and diversion systems are not neutral technical fixes — they ultimately reflect this deeper force that determines who benefits and who loses.
What is power?
Over the past 30 years, global sea levels have risen by this amount.
What is over 11 centimeters?
This term describes the inland shift of saline wetlands as they respond to sea level rise when they can no longer keep up through vertical accretion.
What is landward wetland migration?
What do we call the process of accumulating sedimentand plant debris, on a land surface, particularly in wetlands riparian and coastal areas, increasing their elevation.
(from Nature-Based Coastal Solutions)
What is Soil accretion.