Data Sheet 1_Water and sanitation beyond negotiable sustainability in the post-COP30 urban climate agenda.pdf

The analysis identified an institutional chain through which WASH is translated into commitments, measurable information, scalable solutions, investment portfolios and reportable outcomes. Within the documents examined, this process is associated with greater political recognition, accountability and implementation capacity, while privileging dimensions compatible with measurement, financing and reporting. The article conceptualizes this selective regime of visibility as negotiable sustainability.

The comparison with Indigenous formulations shows that territorial authority, self-determination, direct access to finance, care work and integrated relations among waters, bodies, knowledge systems and ways of life remain less structurally incorporated into climate instruments. In response to these limits, the article proposes understanding WASH as relational urban infrastructure, connecting technical performance to service continuity, public health, affordability, territorial distribution of protection, care and decision-making power.

A just post-COP30 WASH agenda therefore requires disputing the criteria through which policies and projects become visible, eligible, financeable and assessable, so that expanded implementation contributes to reducing sanitary and territorial inequalities rather than reproducing them.</p>