Women, technology, and water: creating new waterscapes and contesting cultural norms
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Published:2022-12-30
Issue:1
Volume:13
Page:30-38
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ISSN:2043-9083
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Container-title:Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development
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language:en
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Affiliation:
1. 1 Department of Geography, Miranda House, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
Abstract
Abstract
With the analysis of primary data, the paper looks at how the adoption of new modes of water technologies and subsequent water commercialization has created new waterscapes. Water commercialization is changing cultural norms associated with water collection in the drought-prone villages of western Rajasthan. The newly introduced water tankers have selectively benefited the upper caste rich households who now buy water from the tankers at doorsteps. The majority of the poor and low caste households remain dependent on common water sources that are drying up due to neglect with the advent of water commercialization. Women from low caste poor households have to walk for long distances to fetch water in addition to doing physical labor to support family income. Though domestic water use remains a domain of woman's working space, men from high caste rich households have started fetching and storing water as it entails cash transactions.
Subject
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Pollution,Waste Management and Disposal,Water Science and Technology,Development
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