"Water as a Weapon: The History of Water Supply Development in Nkayi District, Zimbabwe"
This paper argues that much historical and political analysis of Zimbabwe neglects a crucial resource: water.
This paper argues that much historical and political analysis of Zimbabwe neglects a crucial resource: water.
This article examines the alienation of water users in the lower Colorado River Basin from the river and its delta during the twentieth century.
This article examines in a historical perspective (1930–1970) the water conflicts that have occurred due to technological transformation in water lifting devices (viz.: electric and oil-engine pumpsets) in the agricultural sector in the old Kalingarayan channel and new Lower Bhavani Project canal of the Bhavani River Basin in Tamil Nadu.
Salinity in Victoria’s irrigated districts can be understood as the result not only of environmental predisposition and technological inadequacies, but of a prevailing political philosophy which considered irrigation as a social and economic good per se.
Melinda Laituri, Carson fellow from February to May 2011, talks about her research project, “Integrated Environmental History of Watersheds,” a comparative, historical-geographical analysis of the Danube and the Colorado rivers.
Conservation Song explores ways in which colonial relations shaped meanings and conflicts over environmental control and management in Malawi. By focusing on soil conservation, which required an integrated approach to the use and management of such natural resources as land, water, and forestry, it examines the origins and effects of policies and their legacies in the post-colonial era.
Laura Westra discusses biotechnology and transgenics in agriculture and aquaculture from a perspective of ecosystem integrity.
The article tells the story of the rise and decline of the significance and visibility of “white coal” and hydroelectricity over the course of the twentieth century.
The Machine upgraded by Dufrayer was able to pump the impressive amount of 20,000 m3 per day but new concern threatened its existence: the Seine waters growing pollution.
This article investigates the transition of water supply in Bangalore, where wells were gradually replaced by piped water.