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Water Futures Seminar: Managing toxins and making water “safe”: Consumer buffering practices in contexts of chemo-uncertainty.

Presented by Associate Professor Georgina Drew from the School of Social Sciences.  When it comes to water quality, seeing is not believing; even clear-looking water can harbor nefarious elements that are harmful to health. To protect against water's hidden toxins, Indian consumers are adopting technologies designed to filter and mechanically 'heal' the waters they consume. In this talk, Georgina examines the use(s) of household water management technologies based on ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Kochi, Kerala.

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