Importantly, we also caution scholars against viewing climate change as the driver of water injustice. By building unity (not uniformity) between water justice and climate justice struggles, movements could gain better insight into the local-global connections that exist between water injustice and climate injustice. Third, water justice and climate justice struggles can and should build greater unity. We examine six examples of how responses to climate change are poised to affect water justice: lithium mining, REDD+/Payment of Ecosystem Services, hydropower dams, rural to urban water transfers, desalination, and adaptive management. In some cases, mitigation and adaptation solutions will create or deepen existing water injustices while other solutions may represent a space for positive action. Second, we argue that the proposed solutions to climate change can and will have implications for water justice. Therefore addressing water injustices will also reduce climate change vulnerability. First, we argue that water injustice creates climate change vulnerability and climate change entrenches water injustices. In this chapter, we argue that water justice and climate change are intertwined in three critical ways. The impacts of climate change are not happening in a vacuum, but rather, are layered onto and exacerbate pre-existing inequalities and injustices. Climate change is affecting the availability, distribution, and quality of water around the world.
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