ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Water
Sec. Water and Human Systems
Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/frwa.2025.1564313
This article is part of the Research TopicUnderstanding Water - Energy - Food - Ecosystem Nexus: from modelling to actionView all 6 articles
Water Accessibility as a Catalyst for Food Diversity: A Case Study
Provisionally accepted
- Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Integrated knowledge of the interlinkage between water access and food security is essential for informing future intervention strategies. This study evaluates the role of physical water infrastructure in providing safe drinking water, and its impact on the dietary diversity within rural communities in the Dodoma region of Tanzania. By comparing households in communities with and without water-intervention projects, finding demonstrates that proximity to water sources significantly enhances dietary outcomes. The level of nutrition for the communities with and without water-intervention projects were evaluated by food consumption score (FCS) and dietary diversity score (DDS). A decreasing trend of FCS and DDS with an increase in the time needed to fetch water indicated a significant negative correlation (Spearman's correlation analysing all participants = -0.178, p < 0.001 and -0.221, p < 0.001, respectively). Households near water resources had higher FCS and DDS than those farther away, suggesting that water supply infrastructure projects enhance both sustainable water and nutrition goals.
Keywords: Drinking Water, Food diversity, Water accessibility, Water infrastructure, water-intervention project
Received: 21 Jan 2025; Accepted: 17 Sep 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Ronen Eliraz, Aviram, Mendelsohn and Avisar. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Dror Avisar, droravi@post.tau.ac.il
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