Knowing groundwater: Embodied encounters with a lively resource

This paper is concerned with how water prospectors, well diggers, and irrigation farmers come to know groundwater. Drawing on cases from Tanzania and Zimbabwe, the paper shows that much knowledge is derived from the close encounters with groundwater that occur through hard physical work, mediated...

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Main Authors: Frances Cleaver, Tavengwa Chitata, Chris de Bont, Kerstin Joseph, Lowe Börjeson, Jeltsje Kemerink-Seyoum
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Water Alternatives Association 2023-02-01
Series:Water Alternatives
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Online Access:https://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol16/v16issue1/691-a16-1-8/file