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Tapping the Oceans provides a detailed analysis of the political and ecological debates facing water desalination in the twenty-first century.
Water supplies for cities around the world are undergoing profound geographical, technological and political transformations. Increasingly, water-stressed cities are looking to the oceans to fix unreliable, contested and over-burdened water supply systems. Yet the use of emerging desalination technologies is accompanied by intense debates on their economic cost, governance, environmental impact and poses wider questions for the sustainable and just provision of urban water. Through a series of cutting-edge case studies and multi-subject approaches, this book explores the perspectives, disputes and politics surrounding water desalination on a broad geographical scale.
As the first book of its kind, this unique work will appeal to those researching water and infrastructure issues in the fields of political ecology, geography, environmental science and sustainability. Industry and water managers who wish to understand the political debates around desalination technology more fully will also find this an informative read.
Contributors include: E. Feitelson, M. Fragkou, S. Gorostiza, A. Loftus, H. March, J. McEvoy, D. Pavón Gamero, D. Sauri, A. Scheba, S. Scheba, E. Swyngedouw, M. Usher, J. Williams
Contents
Contents:
1. Mobilising the oceans to quench our thirst
Joe Williams and Erik Swyngedouw
2. Wet dreams with a grain of salt: Desalination in Spain's water policy
David Saurἰ, Santiago Gorostiza and David Pavón
3. Water Governance and Desalination in Baja California Sur, Mexico
Jamie McEvoy
4. On the Implications of Seawater Desalination: Some Insights from the Israeli Case
Eran Feitelson
5. Disclosing water inequalities at the household level under desalination water provision; the case of Antofagasta, Chile
Maria Christina Fragkou
6. Desalination as emergency fix: Tracing the drought-desalination assemblage in South Africa
Suraya Scheba and Andreas Scheba
7. Worlding via water: Desalination, cluster development and the 'stickiness' of commodities
Mark Usher
8. Financialising desalination in London: The Thames Desalination Plant (TWDP)
Alex Loftus and Hug March
9. Commodifying the Pacific Ocean: Desalination and the neoliberalisation of water in Southern California
Joe Williams
10. Politicizing the salt of the seas
Erik Swyngedouw and Joe Williams
Index
