Water, worry, and Doña Paloma: Why water security is fundamental to global mental health

Global Mental Health: Anthropological Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 57-71

  Wutich, Amber ^a,b   Brewis, Alexandra ^a   Chavez, Jose B Rosales ^a   Jaiswal, Charu L ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity at ASU   (United States)

^c Arizona State University ^*

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315428055-11     Document Type: Chapter

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