The rural–urban equity nexus of Metro Manila’s water system

Torio, Philamer C.; Harris, Leila M.; Angeles, Leonora C.

doi:10.1080/02508060.2019.1560559

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“…Other examples similarly highlight certain discourses of conservation, efficiency, or even the human right to water that condition particular water-related uses or shifts. Consider, for instance, the argument that a focus on the human right to water can privilege human users over ecosystems, or that this discourse and policy has also served as justification for large water transfers from rural users to urban consumers [42,43].…”

Section: Theorizing Power and Politics In Water Governancementioning

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Re-Theorizing Politics in Water Governance

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Nelson

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Water

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This Special Issue on water governance features a series of articles that highlight recent and emerging concepts, approaches, and case studies to re-center and re-theorize “the political” in relation to decision-making, use, and management—collectively, the governance of water. Key themes that emerged from the contributions include the politics of water infrastructure and insecurity; participatory politics and multi-scalar governance dynamics; politics related to emergent technologies of water (bottled or packaged water, and water desalination); and Indigenous water governance. Further reflected is a focus on diverse ontologies, epistemologies, meanings and values of water, related contestations concerning its use, and water’s importance for livelihoods, identity, and place-making. Taken together, the articles in this Special Issue challenge the ways that water governance remains too often depoliticized and evacuated of political content or meaning. By re-centering the political, and by developing analytics that enable and support this endeavor, the contributions throughout highlight the varied, contested, and important ways that water governance needs to be recalibrated and enlivened with keen attention to politics—broadly understood.

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“…Porter & Demeritt, 2012;Warner, 2010). Second, universalizing, when lack of access to drinking water and sanitation are portrayed as a universal problem of today's urban world, rather than socially and politically produced (in this issue, Torio, Harris, & Angeles, 2019;cf. Aguilera-Klink, Pérez-Moriana, & Sánchez-Garcıá, 2000).…”

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“…As these same contributions show, cultural-political classifications and prioritization also convey water-related identity labels that speak of 'water consumers' (which makes seeing these subjects as water governance protagonists very difficult), 'clients' (assigning water users a specific role in the market), 'beneficiaries' (which delegitimizes any questioning of water-transfer projects), et cetera. In many cases, such labelling or assigned roles are inscribed in, and in turn consolidated by, specific infrastructure designs, the most prominent example being the functioning water tap in urban households that creates 'clients' in some neighbourhoods and 'non-clients' in other, often historically already disadvantaged zones (see in this issue Torio, Harris & Angeles, 2019;Wessels et al, 2019). In this way, water infrastructure can be both a source and the result of particular unequal social and political positions.…”

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“…Such recognition efforts and identification politics exist side by side with people trying to recover, reframe and react, in order to be able to move on. As this issue's contributions show, reactions of affected water users, both rural and urban, are multiple and ambivalent, ranging from acceptance (Damonte & Boelens, 2019), to consideration of compensation for damages and losses (Torio et al, 2019), to aiming to benefit from urban-based water projects (Bleeker & Vos, 2019), to active uprising and protest (Hidalgo-Bastidas & Boelens, 2019;Wessels et al 2019). Frequently, multiple and seemingly contradictory reactions and coping strategies coexist inside a group or even within one person.…”

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Evolving connections, discourses and identities in rural–urban water struggles

Hommes

Veldwisch

Harris

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Water International

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“…Scholars have argued for new perspectives to examine how urban water security strategies unequally transform the urban and rural gradient into new hydrosocial territories (Boelens et al 2016;Beckner et al 2019;Hommes et al 2019). Torio, Harris, and Angeles (2019), for example, recently proposed the idea of a "rural-urban water equity nexus," illustrating how water governance decisions compound existing inequities in drinking water provision across urban and rural areas.…”

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Urban Household Water Insecurity from the Margins: Perspectives from Northeast Brazil

Tomaz

Jepson

Santos

2020

The Professional Geographer

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a Urban water security strategies commonly pivot around supply-side initiatives to mitigate scarcity, forecasted population growth, or anticipated climate change; yet, scholars have begun to expand urban water security scholarship by including alternative frameworks that incorporate equity into the analysis. Our study seeks to contribute to this equity turn by opening the investigative aperture on urban water security research in several aspects. We address the question of water security for whom, and turn our attention to the urban resident and household. We shift empirical focus to smaller urban centers in the Global South, and we develop a new assessment tool for water insecurity, the Household Water Insecurity Index (HWISI), to assess differences across the urban waterscape. We conducted this research in Forquilha (Cear a, Brazil), which represents an overlooked class of small urban centers common across Brazil's semiarid region. We draw on qualitative and quantitative data to describe household water insecurity using the HWISI. The prevalence of household water insecurity is variable, with a quarter of the population experiencing moderate to severe household water insecurity. In addition, analysis of the factors within the HWISI demonstrated how specific water insecurity domains push households across water insecurity thresholds.

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The rural–urban equity nexus of Metro Manila’s water system

Cited by 18 publications

References 35 publications

Re-Theorizing Politics in Water Governance

Re-Theorizing Politics in Water Governance

Evolving connections, discourses and identities in rural–urban water struggles

Urban Household Water Insecurity from the Margins: Perspectives from Northeast Brazil

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