Metabolized-water breeding diseases in urban India: Socio-spatiality of water problems and health burden in Ahmedabad, 2014.
V. S. Saravanan, et al. Center for Development Research, University of Bonn.
The paper provides a situated understanding of the everyday practices that exposes the water infrastructure through leakages, reveals the citizens desire for better water quality and struggle to gain access to water using diverse ‚pressure‘ tactics. It is this social-material construct of infrastructure that gives structure and coherence to urban space, which spatially coincides with the occurrence of diseases.
The methodology offers a way forward for researchers and development agencies to improve the surveillance and monitoring of water infrastructure and public health. By bringing ‚place-based‘ and ‚people-based‘ approach, the analysis charts out avenues for incorporating the socio-spatiality of the everyday problems within the field of urban metabolism for improving resource use efficiencies in cities of rapidly growing economies.
