Book ID: CBB129562255

The Fluvial Imagination: On Lesotho’s Water-Export Economy (2022)

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Colin Hoag (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 236
Language: English

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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Authors & Contributors
Daigger, Glen T.
Characklis, Gregory W.
Johnson, Matthew P.
Kristian Karlo Saguin
Cashin, Joan E.
Ballestero, Andrea
Concepts
Water resource management
Water supply
Environmental degradation
Water
Water security
Water quality
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
Modern
Places
United States
South Africa
India
Brazil
Jakarta (Indonesia)
Lagos, Nigeria
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