Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

11-2021

Abstract

In Los Angeles, domestic wastewater recycling ("greywater") systems are controversial, loved by local environmentalists and disdained by the city's water agencies. Drawing on fieldwork among greywater advocates and public water agency workers, this article examines how greywater systems function as nodes that unsettle relations between residents and the public agencies that manage the city's water grid. Elaborating the longstanding frictions over greywater reuse in LA reveals how these fixtures are mobilized by advocates to rescript the roles of both individuals and the state within the urban waterscape. Detailing public agency workers' resistance to this form of selective disconnection from the grid helps to clarify the patterns of flows, norms of consumption, and forms of state control at stake in efforts to decentralize arrangements of urban water management.

Keywords

Infrastructure, Technopolitics, Water Management, Consumption, Wastewater Recycling

Discipline

Environmental Policy | Environmental Sciences

Research Areas

Integrative Research Areas

Publication

City & Society

Volume

33

Issue

3

First Page

444

Last Page

466

ISSN

0893-0465

Identifier

10.1111/ciso.12414

Publisher

Wiley

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Authors

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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1111/ciso.12414

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