Environmental Justice Concerns in Access to Clean Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene

Abstract

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the necessity of access to clean water and sanitation as a means for disease prevention, yet many around the world lack access to these essential resources. Using an environmental justice lens in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper looks to countries who have made substantial progress toward achieving access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and seeing what lessons might be learned from their success that can be imparted to other countries.