‘If no gasoline, no water’ : privatizing drinkingwater quality in South Texas colonias
Community ; Drinkingwater ; Governance ; Institution ; Political geography ; Privatisation ; Subjectivity ; Texas ; United States of America ; Water ; Water quality
This article examines the privatization of drinkingwater quality in South Texas colonias. It focuses on the emergence of the ‘water consumer’, or the individual who purchases drinkingwater from the vending machine. This approach addresses
the coproduction of political subjectivities in relation to institutional change and how subjectivity reconstitutes a new hydrosocial relationship mediated by the water vending machine. It argues for a relational approach that attends to the production of political
Drinkingwater ; Ground water;Underground water ; Hungary ; Hydrochemistry ; Hydrogeology ; Water quality
The A. provides a hydrogeological evaluation of the arsenic content of the artesian drinkingwater on the Great Hungarian Plain. The article is based upon 2 000 reliable analyses and shows the spatial and subsurface distribution of the arsenic
Abandoned water resources as potential sources of drinkingwater – the Korentan karst spring near Postojna
Drinkingwater ; Inner Carniola ; Karst ; Site preservation ; Slovenia ; Thematic map ; Underground water ; Water ; Water pollution ; Water resources
and illegal waste dumps were also mapped. Thematic maps are excellent tool for planning water protection and land use at national and local level. The study is an example of good practice of the revival of abandoned water sources that may in the future serve
From drawing cognitive maps to knowing the protection zones for drinkingwater resources
Drinkingwater ; Enquiry ; Mental map ; Nature conservation ; Protected area ; Slovenia ; Water resources
Using a sample of 900 persons from the urban area of Ljubljansko polje and the suburban area of Iški vršaj, we tried to determine how much local residents knew about the protection zones for drinkingwater resources. We employed a survey
questionnaire and the drawing of cognitive maps. A little fewer than half of the people are aware they live in water protection zones. The proportions of those who are aware of the protection zones in Ljubljansko polje (two fifths) and in Iški vršaj (two thirds
Drinkingwater ; Karst ; Planning ; Slovenia ; Spring ; Water ; Water economics ; Water needs ; Water quality ; Water supply
Karst springs are important resources of local drinkingwater supply, covering almost half of the country’s needs. This paper discusses water supply in the past and today, problems and challenges that it is facing. The quality of karst water sources
is good but the protection of catchment areas is insufficient. To keep our biggest reservoir of qualitative drinkingwater safe, further planning of water supply will need to base on appropriate research, as are the presented ones. - (L'A.).
The article presents potential and actual sources of groundwater contamination on the Kras plateau, which is the recharge area of the Klariči karst water source that provides drinkingwater for the Kras plateau and Koprsko primorje. The water source
is insufficiently protected due to inadequate water protection policy and the control over the implementation of the provisions has often been ineffective. Untreated wastewaters, illegal waste-disposal dumps and traffic endanger the water source. The hazards
are shown on a simplified map that could be, in a suitable scale, a valuable practical tool for further water source protection and in land-use planning. - (IKR)
Czech Republic ; Drinkingwater ; Hydraulic works ; Reservoir ; Silting ; Water economics ; Water needs
Increased water consumption in the Ostrava Metropolitan Area made the construction of reservoirs in the Moravian-Silesian Beskides Mts inevitable. Two drinkingwater reservoirs have been constructed : Šance Reservoir on the upper Ostravice river
Drinkingwater ; Hungary ; Hydrogeology ; Mineral water ; Natural heritage ; Nature conservation ; Water quality
In terms of underground and mineral waters Hungary has an outstanding position in international comparison. In the opinion of the authors the preservation of the quality of mineral and drinkingwaters is one of the main tasks and at the same time
Drinkingwater ; Germany ; Industry ; Mine ; Saxony-Anhalt ; Water ; Water needs ; Water pollution ; Water quality
finally feeding of external water via a system of long distance pipelines became necessary. After decline and discontinuance of mining and industries as results of transformation process, drinkingwater supply is again ensured. - (HPB)
Excessive mining and mining industry in GDR times resulted in a considerable lowering of the ground water table and contamination of the ground and flowing waters with the effect of undersupply of potable water for the inhabitants in the area. So
Drinkingwater ; Morocco ; Mountain ; Use conflict ; Water
Conflicts over drinkingwater in rural areas are not uncommon and are often associated with aridity and drought. The article shows, however, that disparities in access to drinkingwater do better explain these conflicts than ecological conditions
Health ; India ; Pollution ; Regional disparities ; Water ; Water quality
In many parts of India, neither the quantity nor the quality of drinkingwater supplied to the public comply with required standards. In addition there are vast disparities between different regions and communities. The article deals with a chronic
Mineralne vody Zvolenskej kotliny. (Mineral waters in the Zvolen Basin)
An information of the occurrence, distribution and geochemical characteristics of the individual types of mineral waters in the Zvolen Basin. This basin of Middle Slovakia is rich in mineral waters among them are several evaluated as drinking table
Public taps and private connections : the production of caste distinction and common sense in a Rajasthan drinkingwater supply project
Caste ; Drinkingwater ; Governance ; Household ; India ; Neo liberalism ; Public sector ; Rajasthan ; Social geography ; Village ; Water ; Water supply
This article examines public taps and private connections through the production of caste distinction and common sense in a Rajasthan drinkingwater supply project. To do so, it brings together geographic research on neoliberal water governance
and caste processes in modern rural India to illuminate how neoliberal subjectivities deepened in the post-project phase. It shows the ways that caste norms, village water governance and state power converged to produce ‘new’ ways of thinking about water