moreover in the context of water scarcity vulnerability will depend on the incidence of climatic variability as well as on a person s or community s resilience and adaptive capacity to this stressor as adaptive capacity is intrinsically linked to social structures such as gender class caste and ethnicity miletto et al nevertheless persons with some kind of physical mental intellectual or sensory impairment are disproportionately represented among those who lack access to safe drinking water and sanitation hrc water and sanitation facilities may not be designed to meet the needs of persons with disabilities