“WATER HUNGER” AND ITS ENVIRONMENTAL, BIOLOGICAL AND BIOETHICAL DIMENSION

Abstract

Hunger has a multifactorial and multidimensional nature, being directly and indirectly
mediated by the transversality of drinking water deprivation. The vulnerability of living
beings in the face of the inaccessibility of water for hydration, food and health security
attributes to the expression “hunger for water” an individual, collective, programmatic
and ethical dimension that finds acceptance in the guidelines of the bioethics agenda.
Thus, the objective of this article was to base the concept of “hunger for water” from
the perspective of Environmental Bioethics mediated by three vectors: a) human rights,
in what involves food and health security; b) vulnerabilities, enhanced by the water and
health crisis; c) and ethics contemplating an integral, conscious, protagonist and critical
positioning of individuals, citizens and institutions covering and expanding the concept
of the “Ps” of Intervention Bioethics: protection, precaution, prudence, prevention and
perseverance