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Irrigation Without Drinking Water: Urban Migration, Gendered Water Inequities, and Health and Nutrition Impacts in Southern Peru

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: Objectives: Rapid rural-to-urban migration is reshaping intermediate cities in the Global South, often outpacing safe water and sanitation provision. In Majes, Southern Peru, population growth from uninhabited desert in the 1980s to over 200,000 residents by 2025 followed agricultural expansion and labor migration. We examined how structural water inequities are produced in this context and assessed implications for enteric disease, dietary practices, and gender dynamics.

Source: Current Developments in Nutrition

DOI: 10.1016/j.cdnut.2026.109415

Authors: Jorge L Cañari-Casaño, Hilary M Creed-Kanashiro, Krysty Meza, Emily Treleaven, Lesli Hoey, Andrew Jones

Institutions: Instituto de Investigación Nutricional, University of Michigan

Language: English

Topic: Water Governance and Infrastructure

Subfield: Political Science and International Relations

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Clean water and sanitation, Zero hunger, Good health and well-being, Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $5,000