Water Harvesting and the Cultural Politics of Resource Equity

该项目旨在为理解南亚城市面临的水公平挑战提供一个新的框架。在这一地区，公平获得水是一项日常斗争。例如，在新德里，数百万人遭受供应不足的痛苦，而富人享受的却超过了他们的份额。该项目计划调查人们如何通过采用集水等技术来应对水压力。它还计划检查集水在多大程度上导致社会包容或排斥。通过对影响城市集水成功的水资源价值、资源主观性和权力动态的民族志检查，这些项目旨在获得改善区域水政策和援助有效性的见解。

This project aims to provide a new framework for understanding water equity challenges in urban South Asia. Equitable water access is an everyday struggle in this region. For example, in New Delhi, millions suffer from inadequate supplies, while the wealthy enjoy more than their share. The project plans to investigate how people respond to water stress by adopting techniques such as water harvesting. It also plans to examine the degree to which water harvesting leads to social inclusion or exclusion. Through ethnographic examinations of the water values, resource subjectivities and power dynamics that influence the success of urban water harvesting, the projects intends to gain insights to improve regional water policy and aid effectiveness.