Household rainwater tanks: mediating changing relations with water?
Domestic rainwater tanks have become commonplace in Australia's urban landscape, and have become the physical embodiment of the changing relations between householders, water, and water authorities. The aim of our research was to understand these changing relations by examining how domestic rai...
| Main Authors: | , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Resilience Alliance
2014-06-01
|
| Series: | Ecology and Society |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol19/iss2/art62/ |
| _version_ | 1818838669581090816 |
|---|---|
| author | Carol Farbotko Andrea Walton Aditi Mankad John Gardner |
| author_facet | Carol Farbotko Andrea Walton Aditi Mankad John Gardner |
| author_sort | Carol Farbotko |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | Domestic rainwater tanks have become commonplace in Australia's urban landscape, and have become the physical embodiment of the changing relations between householders, water, and water authorities. The aim of our research was to understand these changing relations by examining how domestic rainwater tanks are inscribed with meanings and assumptions and thus mediate a relationship between households and government. In particular, we considered how domestic rainwater tanks are implicated in various understandings of entitlements to water collected or used in private domains. We examined how tanks can render visible the contestation over rights and obligations of state and citizen as to what is considered private and public water collection, management, and use at the scale of the household. Our exploration of these issues was conducted through a case study of changing water relations in South East Queensland, Australia, where there has been recent widespread installation of domestic rainwater tanks. |
| first_indexed | 2024-12-19T03:42:04Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-780a12151f1b48bd8bfb9de4d2058cef |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 1708-3087 |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-12-19T03:42:04Z |
| publishDate | 2014-06-01 |
| publisher | Resilience Alliance |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Ecology and Society |
| spelling | doaj.art-780a12151f1b48bd8bfb9de4d2058cef2022-12-21T20:37:12ZengResilience AllianceEcology and Society1708-30872014-06-011926210.5751/ES-06632-1902626632Household rainwater tanks: mediating changing relations with water?Carol Farbotko0Andrea Walton1Aditi Mankad2John Gardner3CSIROCSIROCSIROCSIRODomestic rainwater tanks have become commonplace in Australia's urban landscape, and have become the physical embodiment of the changing relations between householders, water, and water authorities. The aim of our research was to understand these changing relations by examining how domestic rainwater tanks are inscribed with meanings and assumptions and thus mediate a relationship between households and government. In particular, we considered how domestic rainwater tanks are implicated in various understandings of entitlements to water collected or used in private domains. We examined how tanks can render visible the contestation over rights and obligations of state and citizen as to what is considered private and public water collection, management, and use at the scale of the household. Our exploration of these issues was conducted through a case study of changing water relations in South East Queensland, Australia, where there has been recent widespread installation of domestic rainwater tanks.http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol19/iss2/art62/Australiadecentralized water collectiondomestic rainwater tankshousehold waterprivate water userainwater privatizationrainwater tanksurban rainwater collectionurban rainwater storagewater rights |
| spellingShingle | Carol Farbotko Andrea Walton Aditi Mankad John Gardner Household rainwater tanks: mediating changing relations with water? Ecology and Society Australia decentralized water collection domestic rainwater tanks household water private water use rainwater privatization rainwater tanks urban rainwater collection urban rainwater storage water rights |
| title | Household rainwater tanks: mediating changing relations with water? |
| title_full | Household rainwater tanks: mediating changing relations with water? |
| title_fullStr | Household rainwater tanks: mediating changing relations with water? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Household rainwater tanks: mediating changing relations with water? |
| title_short | Household rainwater tanks: mediating changing relations with water? |
| title_sort | household rainwater tanks mediating changing relations with water |
| topic | Australia decentralized water collection domestic rainwater tanks household water private water use rainwater privatization rainwater tanks urban rainwater collection urban rainwater storage water rights |
| url | http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol19/iss2/art62/ |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT carolfarbotko householdrainwatertanksmediatingchangingrelationswithwater AT andreawalton householdrainwatertanksmediatingchangingrelationswithwater AT aditimankad householdrainwatertanksmediatingchangingrelationswithwater AT johngardner householdrainwatertanksmediatingchangingrelationswithwater |