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From: Madhavi Latha <madhavi@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018, 7:29 pm
Subject: Talk by Georgina Drew on July 19, 2018 (Thursday) at 3:45 pm
To: Madhavi Latha <madhavi@xxxxxxxxx>
You are cordially invited to a talk titled
*India’s urban rainwater harvesting trend: problems, possibilities, and
provocations*
by
*Georgina Drew*
*University of Adelaide, Australia*
Date & Time: Thursday, July 19, 2018 at 03:45 pm
Venue: ATREE Auditorium
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*Abstract: *
Urban India needs water—a lot of it. Cities such as New Delhi have
typically met internal demands by increasing the amount of water that is
channeled into the national capital from far away places. This has led to
the creation of large upstream dams and to numerous inter-state water
transfers. As the sustainability of these water sources is in doubt, and as
the demands for water grow, the call of the day is to implement
decentralised technologies that improve water availability. Within such a
scenario of water management shifts, this talk takes an anthropological
look at the emerging trend of urban rainwater harvesting. While promising,
the effort to catch rain where it falls is rather complex in everyday
practice due to a range of cultural, social and political factors. By
exploring these challenges while inviting audience reflections on similar
concerns and efforts in Bangalore, the talk addresses issues pertinent to
the quest for improved water stewardship in ever transforming Indian cities.
*About the speaker*
Georgina Drew is a Senior Lecturer of Anthropology and Development Studies
in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Adelaide, Australia.
Her research interests include the anthropology of water, religion and
ecology, the cultural politics of development and climate change, and
feminist political ecology. She is the author of River Dialogues: Hindu
Faith and the Political Ecology of Dams on the Sacred Ganga (2017,
University of Arizona Press). Her work, funded by organizations such as the
National Science Foundation and the Fulbright-Hays Program, is also
featured in American Anthropologist (2012), the Journal for the Study of
Religion, Nature, and Culture (2012, 2015), Himalaya (2014, 2016), South
Asia (2014, 2017), The Australian Journal of Anthropology (2014), and many
more. In 2015, Drew was awarded a prestigious three-year Discovery Early
Career Researcher Award through the Australian Research Council to study
sustainable urban water transitions in South Asia.
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*Tea/coffee will be served downstairs at 3:30 PM*
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Madhavi Latha G
The Academy for Conservation Science and Sustainability Studies
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE),
Royal Enclave, Srirampura, Jakkur PO
Bangalore 560064, India
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Madhavi Latha G
The Academy for Conservation Science and Sustainability Studies
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE),
Royal Enclave, Srirampura, Jakkur PO
Bangalore 560064, India
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Phone: +91-80-23635555 Extn: 121
Fax: +91-80-23530070
E-mail: madhavi@xxxxxxxxx
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