Water Scarcity, Hydropolitics, and the Importance of Materiality at the Foothills of the Rocky Mountains

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Kimberly Sanchez can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/01/water-scarcity-hydropolitics-and-the-importance-of-materiality-at-the-foothills-of-the-rocky-mountains/. About the post: As one of many in a very visible, linear collective, surface waters and irrigation infrastructures like canals, dams, and reservoirs foster knowledge of other water users such as Jose as well as the need to actively maintain a steady flow of water in order to enjoy a similar flow of health, wealth and happiness for herds, families and communities. Through comparing two cases of water use among livestock producers in Wyoming, we are reminded of the need to take account of the material conditions that help give form to social relations, particularly those which constitute fluid publics.