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The Fluvial Imagination

Author

Hoag, Colin

Year

2022

Publisher

University of California Press

Type

BOOK

Category

Social Science

Language

English

Pages

236

ISBN

978-0-52038-635-8

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09-Sep-2024

Keywords

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General;NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection;SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African Studies;POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African;POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy;BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Natural Resource Extraction

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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Landlocked and surrounded by South Africa on all sides, the mountain kingdom of Lesotho became the world's first "water-exporting country" when it signed a 1986 treaty with its powerful neighbor. An elaborate network of dams and tunnels now carries water to Johannesburg, the subcontinent's water-stressed economic epicenter. Hopes that receipts from water sales could improve Lesotho's fortunes, however, have clashed with fears that soil erosion from overgrazing livestock could fill its reservoirs with sediment. In this wide-ranging and deeply researched book, Colin Hoag shows how producing water commodities incites a fluvial imagination. Engineering water security for urban South Africa draws attention ever further into Lesotho's rural upstream catchments: from reservoirs to the soils and vegetation above them, and even to the social lives of herders at remote livestock posts. As we enter our planet's water-export era, Lesotho exposes the possibilities and perils ahead.

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