Socio-spatial Infrastructures

This paper explores the social and spatial implications of drinking water infrastructures in rural southern Bihar. Hardiya, a multi-caste multi-religion village, has complex arrangement. village consists original households, households resettled due to dam construction, excessive fluoride contamination groundwater. Excessive produces incidences fluorosis among historically, have low access clean water. In response public health crisis, multiple state, non-state, transnational institutions intervened Hardiya provide safe technologies for These twenty years interventions brought different technologies, institutions, actors together supply However, these schemes are functioning inadequately on ground, remains big question amidst development Hardiya. dialectical relationship between spaces, how both shape each other, through which assemblages, what it renders. It uneven outcomes this technological intervention across socio-spatial groups Hardiya...