Hydrosocial territories in the context of diverse and changing ruralities: the case of Cochabamba’s drinking water provision over time

Hoogendam, P.

doi:10.4324/9780429354427-4

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“…However, its alarming groundwater situation, also affected by large-scale agricultural dynamics, is not likely going to change with a water transfer. Concerning the problem of groundwater overexploitation in the region, water managers need to consider radically different and equitable institutional arrangements between rural and urban users to curb its unsustainable water use, as suggested by Hoogesteger and Wester (2015) and Molle and Closas (2019) (see also Hoogendam, 2019, for a similar case in Cochabamba).…”

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The limits to large-scale supply augmentation: exploring the crossroads of conflicting urban water system development pathways

Madrigal

Cauwenbergh

Hoogesteger

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Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. Managers of urban water systems constantly make decisions to guarantee water services by overcoming problems related to supply–demand imbalances. A preferred strategy has been supply augmentation through hydraulic infrastructure development. However, despite considerable investments, many systems seem to be trapped in lacklustre development pathways making some problems seem like an enduring, almost stubborn, characteristic of the systems: overexploitation and pollution of water sources, distribution networks overwhelmed by leakages and non-revenue water, and unequal water insecurity. Because of these strategies and persistent problems, water conflicts have emerged, whereby social actors oppose these strategies and propose alternative technologies and strategies. This can create development pathway crossroads of the urban water system, defined as a critical point whereby actors in conflict will either reinforce the current business-as-usual pathway based on large supply augmentation or implement alternative solutions for the urban water system. To study this development pathway crossroads, we selected the Zapotillo conflict in Mexico where a large supply augmentation project for two cities experiencing water shortages is at stake. The paper concludes that urban water systems that are engaged in a trajectory characterized by supply-side strategies may experience a temporal relief but neglect equally pressing issues that stymie the human right to water in the medium and long run. However, there is not a straightforward, self-evident development pathway to choose from, only a range of multiple alternatives with multiple trade-offs that need to be thoroughly discussed and negotiated between the stakeholders. We argue that this development pathway crossroads can cross-fertilize contrasting disciplines such as socio-hydrology and critical studies on water because both can complement technical and socio-political analyses to make their knowledge actionable and relevant.

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The limits to large-scale supply augmentation: exploring the crossroads of conflicting urban water system development pathways

Madrigal

Cauwenbergh

Hoogesteger

et al. 2022

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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“…Hydro-territorial spaces are sites of contested control over socio-natural configuration. To define their 'convenient order of things' and make people behave 'properly', dominant groups deploy particular Foucauldian 'government-mentalities', rationalities of those in control (Hommes et al, 2016;Hommes and Boelens, 2018;Hoogendam, 2019).…”

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Rivers of Scarcity. Utopian water regimes and flows against the current

Boelens

2022

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Utopians organized space, nature and society to perfection, including land and water governance -- rescuing society from deep-rooted crisis: “The happiest basis for a civilized community, to be universally adopted” (Thomas More, 1516). These days, similarly, well-intended utopian water governance regimes suggest radical transformations to combat the global Water Crisis, controlling deviant natures and humans. In this essay I examine water utopia and dystopia as mirror societies. Modern utopias ignore real-life water cultures, squeeze rivers dry, concentrate water for the few, and blame the victims. But water-user collectives, men and women, increasingly speak up. They ask scholars and students to help question Flying Islands experts’ claims to rationality, democracy and equity; to co-create water knowledges and co-design water governance, building rooted socionatural commons, building “riverhood”.

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Hydrosocial territories in the context of diverse and changing ruralities: the case of Cochabamba’s drinking water provision over time

Cited by 2 publications

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The limits to large-scale supply augmentation: exploring the crossroads of conflicting urban water system development pathways

The limits to large-scale supply augmentation: exploring the crossroads of conflicting urban water system development pathways

Rivers of Scarcity. Utopian water regimes and flows against the current

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