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Waterworlding: More-than-human and more-than-digital
Technology providers from around the world are currently marketing digital water meters to households or communities with the promise of using water more efficiently and distributing it more fairly in the face of increasingly scarce drinking water resources and simultaneous population growth.
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Life From, For and To Water
Bogardi, J. J. 2025. Life From, For and To Water. Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78791-1
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Hatching Conflicts: Trout Reproduction, Properties of Water, and Property Ownership in South Africa
Nustad, Knut G., Duncan Brown and Heather A. Swanson. 2023. Hatching Conflicts: Trout Reproduction, Properties of Water, and Property Owners...
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‘Fluid Dispossessions’: Contested Waters in Capitalist Natures
Dewan, Camelia and Knut G. Nustad. 2023. ‘Fluid Dispossessions’: Contested Waters in Capitalist Natures. Ethnos, 89(3), 389–400. https://doi...
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Defining Humanity through Water and Sanitation
My project focuses on water and sanitation through the technologies that provide them, as a highly specific material index for abstract sensibilities about what constitutes a proper and dignified human life.
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Handbook of Water Resources Management: Discourses, Concepts and Examples
Bogardi, Janos J., Joyeeta Gupta, Wasantha K. D. Nandalal, Léna Salamé, Ronald R. P van Nooijen, Navneet Kumar, Tawatchai Tingsanchali, Anik...
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Defining Humanity through Water and Sanitation
My project focuses on water and sanitation through the technologies that provide them, as a highly specific material index for abstract sensibilities about what constitutes a proper and dignified human life.
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Assessing states: Water service delivery and evolving state–society relations in Accra, Ghana and Cape Town, South Africa
Harris, Leila M. 2019. Assessing states: Water service delivery and evolving state–society relations in Accra, Ghana and Cape Town, South Af...
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Water Governance in the Face of Global Change
Pahl-Wostl, Claudia. 2015. Water Governance in the Face of Global Change. Cham: Springer International Publishing. http://link.springer.com/...
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South Africa and the Human Right to Water: Equity, Ecology, and the Public Trust Doctrine
Takacs, David. 2016. South Africa and the Human Right to Water: Equity, Ecology, and the Public Trust Doctrine. Berkeley Journal of Internat...
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Multiple ontologies of water: Politics, conflict and implications for governance
Yates, Julian S., Leila M. Harris and Nicole J Wilson. 2017. Multiple ontologies of water: Politics, conflict and implications for governanc...
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Worlding the Intangibility of Resilience: The Case of Rice Farmers and Water-Related Risk in the Philippines
Shah, Sameer H., Leonora C. Angeles, & Leila M. Harris. 2017. Worlding the Intangibility of Resilience: The Case of Rice Farmers and Water-R...
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Water, equity and resilience in Southern Africa: future directions for research and practice
Rodina, Lucy, Lawrence A Baker, Mary Galvin, Jaqueline Goldin, Leila M Harris, Thomani Manungufala, Muchaparara Musemwa, Catherine Sutherlan...
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Pathways for Participatory Water Governance in Ashaiman, Ghana: Learning from Institutional Bricolage and Hydrosocial Perspectives
Peloso, Megan M. and Leila M. Harris.2017. Pathways for Participatory Water Governance in Ashaiman, Ghana: Learning from Institutional Brico...
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Framing community entitlements to water in Accra, Ghana: A complex reality
Dapaah, Elizabeth K. and Harris, Leila M. 2017. Framing community entitlements to water in Accra, Ghana: A complex reality. Geoforum, 82, 26...
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Water Materialities and Citizen Engagement: Testing the Implications of Water Access and Quality for Community Engagement in Ghana and South Africa
Harris, Leila M., Danika Kleiber, Lucy Rodina, Sule Yaylaci, Jacqueline Goldin and Germaine Owen. 2018. Water Materialities and Citizen Enga...
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Whose input counts? Evaluating the process and outcomes of public consultation through the BC Water Act Modernization
Jollymore, Ashlee, Kiely McFarlane and Leila M. Harris. 2018. Whose input counts? Evaluating the process and outcomes of public consultation...
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Constraints and solutions for groundwater development, supply and governance in urban areas in Kenya
Olago, Dan O. 2018. Constraints and solutions for groundwater development, supply and governance in urban areas in Kenya. Hydrogeology Journ...
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The challenges and options in relation to water security for groundwater-dependent urban settlements located in fragile regions of Kenya
Many towns in Kenyas arid and semi-arid lands (and to a lesser extent, sub-humid zones) rely largely or exclusively on groundwater for public and private water supply.
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Springer Handbook of Water Resources Management
Water is a limited resource. Water and sanitation are human rights.
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Differentiated Access: Water, Citizenship and Politics
Global water policy highlights the need to extend affordable and safe water to underserved communities, in addition to fostering participatory water governance.
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Deeply equitable development: water provision and biodiversity offsetting in South Africa
Fulfilling human rights to a clean and healthy environment while sustaining that environment for present and future generations of humans and non-humans is unambiguously worthwhile until a nation tries to achieve these goals simultaneously.
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Water Governance in the Face of Global Change: From Understanding to Transforming
The sustainable management of global water resources is one of the most pressing environmental challenges of the 21st century.