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Water, Gender, and Climate Change
I found this article interesting, especially Chapter 3, Subheading 3.4. It discusses how gender relates to water systems and their governance. For instance, the longer it takes to collect water, the less time there is for other activities. While this can be a positive (one takeaway is that sometimes women like spending time gathering water…
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I wanted to take a moment just to acknowledge two important events that are happening this week. First, historic flooding in Pakistan has displaced millions. Second, in Jackson, Mississippi, flooding has led to the failure of the city’s water treatment plant, leaving the city without drinkable water. Both of these events are related to climate…
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Can the same water mean different things in different places?
Summarizing Kaplan, M. (2008). Fijian Water in Fiji and New York: Local Politics and a Global Commodity. Cultural Anthropology, 22(4), 685–706. https://doi.org/10.1525/can.2007.22.4.685. Kaplan explores what water means in two different places–one, in Fiji, and two, in New York. The insight, however, comes from the fact that it is the same water in two places–Fijian water.…
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