Vulnerabilidad social en personas que no acceden al servicio básico de agua potable en la comunidad San Jacinto de Copzhal, Ecuador, durante el 2022

Abstract

Social vulnerability comprises the combination of potential adversities for the exercise of citizen rights, the inability to respond to materialized risks, and the inability to adapt to the consequences, taking into account the environment, as well as the individual. Of which the people who don't have access to the community's potable water service are exposed to risks, as well as to deprivations that increase their conditions of defenselessness, and that given their situation they have generated their own mechanisms to cover the lack of drinking water and the violations of their rights. To understand the social vulnerability of people who do not have public water service, the research revolved around risk categories, conditions of defenselessness and coping strategies, from a human rights approach to analyze their inequalities. The same one that sought to analyze the social vulnerability of people who do not access the potable water service in the San Jacinto de Copzhal community, during 2022.

The research was carried out in a non-experimental way, with a qualitative, cross- sectional, exploratory level from a phenomenological approach, to understand the realities of

these people. With two study groups: the first, by representatives of the community who are responsible for providing the vital liquid; and the second, people who do not have access to the community's public drinking water network. For the collection of information, the semi-structured interview, the household-family information collection form and participant observation were used. It was possible to evidence risks of a structural and social nature, invisibility and marginalization of people without the basic service, in addition to the multiple deprivations, such as no access to other public services and remunerations that do not reach the current unified basic salary, and the mechanisms to which that have been adapted to respond to the non-accessibility of the drinking water service.