Sonia Sheryr
CODES 123
Dr. Bradley
April 13 2025
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This article considers water infrastructure and its relationship to political and social inequality, factoring in the effects of rain and floodwater. The author conducted a comparative historical analysis of two separate neighborhoods representing elite and non-elite communities. Both neighborhoods indeed show that water infrastructures influence poverty and inequality. This article shows a different perspective on how water and other environmental characteristics can destroy an elite-driven urban development. Water access ended up becoming an overall key that some neighborhoods became legitimate and others transitory. The elite neighborhoods were granted with reliable water access that was consistent while the non elite neighborhoods were left dealing with their water infrastructure being specifically unreliable and other necessary needs not being sufficiently met.
It was then known that it is absolutely necessary to keep a vital point of view on urban crisis discourse. There can be multiple different processes relating to the environment that end up benefiting some social groups while poorly affecting others. In addition, this all relates to the fact that Port au Prince needs to evaluate not just only on the effects of the growing demand of water infrastructure and the resources that come along with it; but also the inequalities that can affect a variety of social groups in different ways and can create numerous inequalities and how to combat that situation.
The author, Claire Antone Payton, is associated with the University of Virginia. This article consists of multiple research ties and various first-person experiences. It also includes several citations and references, which increases its credibility and reliability. This article contains many different perspectives and variations, and keeping that in mind can influence biases or limitations. This article can be applied and used as a reference in several situations, such as researching past experiences to learn from and prevent them from happening in the future. This can help people get a look at what the situation was, how it arose, the thought process behind it, and the challenges and hardships faced along the way.