Reviews

摘要

Most of the time WASH professionals take a static view of water: we talk about access to improved or unimproved, safe or unsafe, sources. But Hanchett et al. remind us that such binary divisions are essentially false dichotomies. Water doesn't stand alone, it is interconnected. The authors' poignant portrayal of the waterscapes of Bangladesh - with its rivers, streams, canals, tubewells, ponds, lakes and wetlands, floods, chars, deltas, waterlogged landscapes - illustrates how water flows with - as well as against -the daily currents of social interactions. Water Culture in South Asia shows us how access to water is mediated by the relationships among individuals within groups, and among groups, connecting people and places.