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Blog post at FLOWs: "Piped drinking water regimes beyond the state: insights from peri-urban Delhi"

Published Sep 11, 2023

Timos Karpouzoglou, a researcher on urban water infrastructure at KTH, and two co-writers, have published a blog post on the relation between formal, informal, piped and non-piped water. You can read the entire blog post on the FLOWs blog at the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education.

“Piped drinking water regimes beyond the state: insights from peri-urban Delhi

Sumit Vij, Timos Karpouzoglou, and Vishal Narain challenge the myth of the formal (state controlled) water as ‘piped’ water versus the informal (non-state) water as ‘non-piped’. Their ethnographic work illustrates how these two water regimes are entangled, dynamic, and shaped by unequal power relations.”

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