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5. Signs of Water. Community Perspectives on Water, Responsibility, and Hope.

Author

Boschman, Robert, Boschman, Robert, and Jakubec, Sonya L.

Subjects
Conservation of the environment, The Earth: natural history general, Detroit, Water, climate security, community based natural resource management, cultural diversity, environmental degradation, environmental justice, fish farming, future of water, global water systems, human rights, hydroelectric power, hydroscape, indigenous water access, lakes, oceans, plant healing, politics of water, ponds, public policy, race and water, rain, rivers, social inequality, sustainable water supply management, water access, water law, water policy, water pollution, water rights, water security, water systems, watersheds
Abstract

Summary: Water is more important than ever before. It is increasingly controversial in direct proportion to its scarcity, demand, neglect, and commodification. There is no place on the planet where water is not, or will not be, of critical concern. Signs of Water brings together scholars and experts from five continents in an interdisciplinary exploration of the theoretical approaches, social and political issues, and anthropogenic hazards surrounding water in the twenty-first century. From the kitchen taps of Detroit, Michigan to the water-harvesting infrastructure of Tokyo, from the Upper Xingu Basin of Brazil to the Sunda Deep of the Java Trench, these essays flow through time and place to uncover the many issues surrounding water today. Asking key theoretical questions, exposing threats to vital water systems, and proposing paths forward, Signs of Water brims with histories, ontologies, and political struggles. Bringing together local experiences to tell a global story, it centers water as history, as politics, and as a human right.

6. Signs of Water

Author

Boschman, Robert and Jakubec, Sonya L.

Subjects
Water, water rights, human rights, water pollution, rivers, oceans, lakes, ponds, rain, water systems, water access, politics of water, global water systems, future of water, climate security, water security, plant healing, race and water, Detroit, environmental justice, indigenous water access, water policy, public policy, water law, social inequality, cultural diversity, environmental degradation, community based natural resource management, sustainable water supply management, hydroelectric power, fish farming, watersheds, hydroscape, bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RNK Conservation of the environment, bic Book Industry Communication::W Lifestyle, sport & leisure::WN Natural history::WNW The Earth: natural history general
Abstract

Water is more important than ever before. It is increasingly controversial in direct proportion to its scarcity, demand, neglect, and commodification. There is no place on the planet where water is not, or will not be, of critical concern. Signs of Water brings together scholars and experts from five continents in an interdisciplinary exploration of the theoretical approaches, social and political issues, and anthropogenic hazards surrounding water in the twenty-first century. From the kitchen taps of Detroit, Michigan to the water-harvesting infrastructure of Tokyo, from the Upper Xingu Basin of Brazil to the Sunda Deep of the Java Trench, these essays flow through time and place to uncover the many issues surrounding water today. Asking key theoretical questions, exposing threats to vital water systems, and proposing paths forward, Signs of Water brims with histories, ontologies, and political struggles. Bringing together local experiences to tell a global story, it centers water as history, as politics, and as a human right.

Published
2022

7. Discovering the Political Implications of Coproduction in Water Governance

Author

Robert Lepenies, Frank Hüesker, Silke Beck, and Marcela Brugnach

Subjects
coproduction, stakeholder participation, water governance, complexity, integrated management, adaptive management, polycentric regimes, transformation towards sustainability, politics of water, Hydraulic engineering, TC1-978, Water supply for domestic and industrial purposes, TD201-500
Abstract

This paper asks what lessons can be learned from experiences with coproduction in water governance. For this, we review a comprehensive corpus of articles in the field of water governance that relies on the term. We find that there are radically different understandings of what coproduction means in different branches of the water governance literature. Through this review, we demonstrate how and why coproduction needs to be analyzed for its political implications. Despite being timely and pressing, these questions are not addressed in a sufficient way by the scholarly debate on coproduction. In order to fill this knowledge gap, we first distinguish different historical traditions of coproduction and then explore their political implications along three questions: The “why?”, the “who?”, and the “how?”. We show that these questions find different answers not just between but also within different traditions of using the term. After describing and contrasting these variants, we conclude by summarizing the main lessons from our review and by identifying questions which call for future research.

Published
2018
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8. Negotiating marginalities: right to water in Delhi.

Author

Roy, Deya

Subjects
*DRINKING water, *URBANIZATION, *PASSIVE resistance
Abstract

As Indian cities expand, water becomes extremely necessary to support the process of urbanisation. These growing water needs are translated onto the body of the city in the form of intense conflicts over the limited supply. These conflicts place water at the centre of socio-spatial, cultural, political and ecological tensions in the city. Through persistent struggles to access water by strategies such as passive resistance, self help, individual resistance and social mobilisation, the marginalised groups and individuals in the contemporary Indian city negotiate their water claims. However, the State through its ability to legalise (or make illegal) certain practices and spaces, controls the right to potable water in the city. This paper explores how the right to potable water and the right to the city are defined and challenged by the politics of the State and the counter politics of the marginalised groups in the context of urban poor in Delhi. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2013
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9. Women and the Politics of Water: An Introduction.

Author

Ghosh, Nandita

Subjects
*BIOPOLITICS (Sociobiology), *WOMEN in politics, *SAVINGS, *COMMODIFICATION, *GENDER inequality, *WOMEN, *POLITICAL movements, *SOCIAL systems, *ECOLOGY, *GOVERNMENT policy
Abstract

In my introduction, I seek to provide a theoretical framework for reading the critical essays, narratives and poetry depicting women's struggles over water. I use theories about capital accumulation, the commodification of natural resources and women's bodies, biopolitical state power, the state of exception, the bare life and the new imperialism. I believe that these theories illustrate the multiple yet specific ways in which the gendered politics of water plays out in different contexts. I invite readers to understand this layered perspective in relation to another kind of layering - the intertexual generic expectations that get built into the act of reading the various kinds of texts included in this issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2007
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10. Discovering the political implications of coproduction in water governance

Author

Lepenies, Robert, Hüesker, Frank, Beck, Silke, Brugnach, M., Lepenies, Robert, Hüesker, Frank, Beck, Silke, and Brugnach, M.

Abstract

This paper asks what lessons can be learned from experiences with coproduction in water governance. For this, we review a comprehensive corpus of articles in the field of water governance that relies on the term. We find that there are radically different understandings of what coproduction means in different branches of the water governance literature. Through this review, we demonstrate how and why coproduction needs to be analyzed for its political implications. Despite being timely and pressing, these questions are not addressed in a sufficient way by the scholarly debate on coproduction. In order to fill this knowledge gap, we first distinguish different historical traditions of coproduction and then explore their political implications along three questions: The “why?”, the “who?”, and the “how?”. We show that these questions find different answers not just between but also within different traditions of using the term. After describing and contrasting these variants, we conclude by summarizing the main lessons from our review and by identifying questions which call for future research.

Published
2018

11. Negotiating marginalities: right to water in Delhi

Author

D. Roy and D. Roy

Abstract

As Indian cities expand, water becomes extremely necessary to support the process of urbanisation. These growing water needs are translated onto the body of the city in the form of intense conflicts over the limited supply. These conflicts place water at the centre of socio-spatial, cultural, political and ecological tensions in the city. Through persistent struggles to access water by strategies such as passive resistance, self help, individual resistance and social mobilisation, the marginalised groups and individuals in the contemporary Indian city negotiate their water claims. However, the State through its ability to legalise (or make illegal) certain practices and spaces, controls the right to potable water in the city. This paper explores how the right to potable water and the right to the city are defined and challenged by the politics of the State and the counter politics of the marginalised groups in the context of urban poor in Delhi.

Published
2013

12. Building Water Utilities with Local Private Entrepreneurs : The Example of the Mirep Program in Cambodia 2000-2010

Author

Mahe, Jean Pierre

Subjects
COMPETITIVE BIDDING, LOCAL WATER, RIVERS, PUMPING, WATER CONSUMPTION, COMMUNITY WELL, DRAINAGE, BOREHOLES, WATER REGULATION, RAINWATER COLLECTION, ACCESS TO DRINKING WATER, ABUNDANCE OF WATER, ACCESS TO SAFE DRINKING WATER, USE OF WATER, PROGRAMS, ACCESS TO WATER SUPPLY, WATER SOURCES, PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY, BACTERIOLOGICAL QUALITY, RURAL WATER SUPPLY, RAINFALL, COMMUNITY WATER, SMALL TOWN WATER SUPPLY, CONSTRUCTION, EFFLUENT, SMALL RURAL TOWNS, DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS, WATER SUPPLY SERVICE, LOCAL PRIVATE SECTOR, PERFORMANCE INDICATORS, CATCHMENTS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, WATER TARIFF, WATER POLICY, WATER INFRASTRUCTURE, WATER TREATMENT, WATER TREATMENT FACILITIES, WATER TARIFFS, COMMUNITY SYSTEMS, FARMERS, WATER POINTS, HARDNESS, POND WATER, CUBIC METER, SERVICE DELIVERY, NATIONAL WATER SUPPLY, WELLS, PUBLIC WATER, COVERING, PIPES, INDIVIDUAL CONNECTIONS, QUALITY STANDARDS, WATERS, CONCESSION CONTRACTS, INVESTMENT COST, POLLUTION, QUALITY OF WATER, SANITATION, PUBLIC UTILITIES, SURFACE WATER, POLITICS OF WATER, SANITATION SECTOR, SERVICE PROVIDER, TUBE WELLS, SANITATION UTILITIES, PATHOGENS, WATER COLLECTION, WATER SERVICES, WATER SYSTEM, RAIN, WATER SUPPLIES, DRINKING WATER, HUMAN WASTE, MANAGEMENT OF WATER, PRIVATE WATER SUPPLY, WATER FEES, RURAL VILLAGES, POTABLE WATER SUPPLY, PUBLIC WATER UTILITY, COST RECOVERY, WASHING, TURBIDITY, WATER SUPPLY SERVICES, WELL WATER, DRINKING WATER SUPPLY, WATER SECTOR, WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM, SEEPAGE, TARIFF REGULATION, PIPE, PRIVATE PARTICIPATION, OPERATIONAL FUNCTIONS, DOMESTIC WATER, GROUNDWATER, INVESTMENT PLANNING, RESPONSIBILITY FOR WATER, ENGINEERING, DOMESTIC WATER USE, WATER STORAGE, LOCAL ENTREPRENEURS, MANGANESE, RAINWATER, MANAGEMENT OF WATER SUPPLY SERVICES, SHALLOW WELLS, OPERATIONAL COSTS, LOW INCOME CUSTOMERS, WATER NEEDS, IRRIGATION, SALINITY, DUG WELLS, WATER SUPPLY DEMAND, WATER SALES, SMALL RURAL VILLAGES, IRON, OPERATION OF WATER SUPPLY, PUBLIC COMPANY, ALUMINUM, DRINKING WATER QUALITY, FINANCIAL VIABILITY, MANAGEMENT OF WATER SUPPLY, REGULATORY FRAMEWORK, WATER SUPPLIERS, ACCESS TO SERVICES, DRILLED WELLS, COLIFORM BACTERIA, LARGER TOWNS, WATER SYSTEMS, HOUSEHOLDS, PUBLIC HEALTH, INVESTMENT COSTS, POTABLE WATER, RIVER WATER, METERING, LOCAL SERVICES, SERVICE PROVISION, OPERATIONAL ASPECTS, URBAN WATER, RURAL WATER, METEOROLOGY, HOME WATER SUPPLY, PRESSURE, WATER SERVICE, WATER SUPPLY PROJECTS, LOCAL AUTHORITIES, PIPED WATER, PRIVATE PARTICIPATION IN WATER, SMALL TOWN WATER, WATER PRESSURE, URBAN WATER SUPPLY, MARSH, WATER LOSS, WATER UTILITIES, COMMUNITY WELLS, WATER QUALITY, WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS, WATER SUPPLY, TARIFF SETTING, WATER USE, PRIVATE OPERATORS, PROFIT MARGIN, SANITATION INFRASTRUCTURE, PONDS, ACCESS TO WATER, COLLECTION SYSTEMS, LEAK DETECTION, POPULATION DENSITY, SMALL TOWN, WATER RESOURCES, URBAN AREAS, SMALL TOWNS, LAUNDRY, LOCAL STAKEHOLDERS
Abstract

The involvement of the rural private sector in water supply in Cambodia is unique to the country. The presence of this private sector allows other entities to respond to new demands from people living in the larger villages for household water supply, which the State is not yet able to address. These entrepreneurs operate on a merchant basis, lacking an institutional structure which is still being created. Their business is most often based on pushcart delivering water barrels at the house of villagers or more recently on small piped networks usually distributing raw surface water. Service is rough; the water quality is uncertain, but the users are satisfied with this service, because for them, it constitutes another alternative to the already considerable choice of water supplies available-ponds, wells, boreholes, and rivers. Their demands focus more on a practical objective (a supply in the household) than on a sanitary one, even if surveys show that villagers have a good understanding of health risks associated with water. Through the implementation of 14 small scale water supply systems, the goal was to enhance a qualitative improvement of the water service in some Cambodian small towns through the transformation of rough and informal merchant services to a basic water service supplying drinking water to an extended population under a formal institutional arrangement. The MIREP (Mini Reseaux d'Eau Potable - Small Scale Piped Water Supply System) program, launched in 2001 to transform these very basic initiatives into basic services, began as a pilot project supporting one entrepreneur in the implementation of a small piped water system. In order to move forward, the MIREP program made a choice, in particular linked to its proximity to the Ministry of rural development, to assist the nascent involvement of communes in decentralization, to strengthen provincial power through the process of decentralization, and to respect the cultural heritage of those who devised and financed the project.

Published
2010

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