Turning Water into a Commodity
eBook - ePub

Turning Water into a Commodity

Digital Innovation and the Private Sector as Development Agent

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Turning Water into a Commodity

Digital Innovation and the Private Sector as Development Agent

About this book

Pay-as-you-go water dispensers are used in many areas in the Global South, particularly those that are 'off-grid'. This book examines the increasing influence of private corporations and philanthrocapitalist principles in development cooperation in the SDG-era by focusing on water supply to the inhabitants of rural and peri-urban areas of Kenya.

The book explores how private sector approaches and digital technologies open up remote regions to permanent arrangements of transnational market-based water supply beyond state sovereignty, which define their users as paying customers. Considering these technological solutions alongside socio-political realities and local knowledge, it offers a nuanced perspective on the promises and limitations of market-based interventions in the water sector.

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Information

Publisher
Bristol University Press
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781529245486
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Business Ethics
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. List of Figures and Tables
  6. About the Author
  7. Anonymization
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction: PAYGo Water Dispensers and the Sustainable Development Goals
  10. 1 Digital Technologies and Private Sector Market Constructions
  11. 2 The Private Sector and Market-Based Development
  12. 3 From Large-Scale Water Infrastructure to Small-Scale Digital Technologies
  13. 4 Innovating PAYGo Water Dispensers
  14. 5 Extending Water Supply to Urban ‘Informal’ Areas
  15. 6 Disrupting Rural Water Supply
  16. 7 More Than Technical Infrastructures of Market-Based Development
  17. 8 Transparent Water Data or Multiple Waters?
  18. Conclusion: The Private Sector as Development Agent and Market-Based Development in the Water Sector
  19. Notes
  20. References
  21. Index