Replumbing the City (eBook)

Water Management as Climate Adaptation in Los Angeles

Sayd Randle (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
250 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39406-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Moving between shower drains, aqueducts, rain gardens, and even kitchen sinks, Replumbing the City traces the enormous urban waterscape of Los Angeles in a state of flux. For more than a century, the city of Los Angeles has relied on faraway water for the vast majority of its municipal supply, but climate change is making these distant sources much less dependable. To adapt, Angelenos—including city engineers, advocates at NGOs, and residents—are developing new water supplies within the space of the city. Sayd Randle’s ethnography examines the labor of replumbing LA’s sprawling water system, detailing how a desire to sustain unlimited and uninterrupted water provision for paying customers is reshaping the urban environment and its management. Tracking how such projects redistribute the work of water management, the book explores thorny questions of how the labor of climate adaptation should be mobilized and valued.

Inhalt

Contents
 
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
 
Introduction
Part One. Reuse
1. Public Agency Work: Centralized Sewage Recycling and the Allure of Reliability
2. Disrupting Water Consumption and Control at Home
Part Two. Recharge
3. Managing Landscape: Recharge in the Northeastern San Fernando Valley
4. Infrastructural Work and Infiltrating Runoff
5. Ecosystem Duties and Environmental Justice
Epilogue
 
Notes
References
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.5.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• ISBN-10: 0-520-39406-2 / 0520394062
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-39406-3 / 9780520394063