ERC Advanced Grant · 2024
Groundwater resources are under threat from overexploitation, with nearly a third of the world’s largest aquifers being depleted faster than they can be replenished. Initiatives to curb depletion so far have been ineffective. This is because they narrowly attribute it to individual pumping behaviors without questioning the government-promoted intensification of agriculture that pushes farmers to use ever more groundwater in the first place. This project, Aquiverse, reframes groundwater governance by conceiving it as part of a politics of transformation that is anchored in what irrigators themselves do to care for and share the aquifers that they depend on for their livelihoods. Premised on…
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