Women And Water

Author : Deborah Jean O’Bannon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030178192

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Women in Water Quality by Deborah Jean O’Bannon Pdf

This volume captures the impact of women’s research on the public health and environmental engineering profession. The volume is written as a scholarly text to demonstrate that women compete successfully in the field, dating back to 1873. Each authors’ chapter includes a section on her contribution to the field and a biography written for a general audience. This volume also includes a significant representation of early women’s contributions, highlighting their rich history in the profession. The book covers topics such as drinking water and health, biologically-active compounds, wastewater management, and biofilms. This volume should be of interest to academics, researchers, consulting engineering offices, and engineering societies while also inspiring young women to persist in STEM studies and aspire to academic careers. Features a blend of innovations and contributions made by women in water quality engineering, as well as their path to success, including challenges in their journeys Presents an opportunity to learn about the breadth and depth of the field of water quality Includes a history of women in water quality engineering as well as research in current issues such as urban water quality, biologically-active compounds, and biofilms

Author : Ruth Dandrea
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1595310398

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Women on Water by Ruth Dandrea Pdf

Author : Stephanie Buechler,Anne-Marie S. Hanson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317749820

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A Political Ecology of Women, Water and Global Environmental Change by Stephanie Buechler,Anne-Marie S. Hanson Pdf

This edited volume explores how a feminist political ecology framework can bring fresh insights to the study of rural and urban livelihoods dependent on vulnerable rivers, lakes, watersheds, wetlands and coastal environments. Bringing together political ecologists and feminist scholars from multiple disciplines, the book develops solution-oriented advances to theory, policy and planning to tackle the complexity of these global environmental changes. Using applied research on the contemporary management of groundwater, springs, rivers, lakes, watersheds and coastal wetlands in Central and South Asia, Northern, Central and Southern Africa, and South and North America, the authors draw on a variety of methodological perspectives and new theoretical approaches to demonstrate the importance of considering multiple layers of social difference as produced by and central to the effective governance and local management of water resources. This unique collection employs a unifying feminist political ecology framework that emphasizes the ways that gender interacts with other social and geographical locations of water resource users. In doing so, the book further questions the normative gender discourses that underlie policies and practices surrounding rural and urban water management and climate change, water pollution, large-scale development and dams, water for crop and livestock production and processing, resource knowledge and expertise, and critical livelihood studies. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of environmental studies, development studies, feminist and environmental geography, anthropology, sociology, environmental philosophy, public policy, planning, media studies, Latin American and other area studies, as well as women’s and gender studies.

Author : Jackie Traverse
Publisher : Roseway Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Coloring books
ISBN : 1773630733

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Ikwe by Jackie Traverse Pdf

"I had the privilege of going to Standing Rock twice. The strength and power that came from the women there inspired this book. To be a woman is to be a life giver and water protector. Even if you never have children, you have that sense, and the duty to honour and protect the water is within you," writes Traverse.

Author : Rahel Wasserfall
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781611688702

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Women and Water by Rahel Wasserfall Pdf

The term Niddah means separation. During her menstrual flow and for several days thereafter, a Jewish woman is considered Niddah -- separate from her husband and unable to practice the sacred rituals of Judaism. Purification in a miqveh (a ritual bath) following her period restores full status as a wife and member of the Jewish community. In the contemporary world, debates about Niddah focus less on the literal exclusion of menstruating women from the synagogue, instead emphasizing relations between husband and wife and the general role of Jewish women in Judaism. Although this has been the law since ancient times, the meaning and practice of Niddah has been widely contested. Women and Water explores how these purity rituals have affected Jewish women across time and place, and shows how their own interpretation of Niddah often conflicted with rabbinic views. These essays also speak to contemporary feminist issues such as shaping women's identity, power relations between women and men, and the role of women in the sacred.

Author : Sumi Krishna,Arpita De
Publisher : Zubaan
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789383074303

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Women Water Professionals by Sumi Krishna,Arpita De Pdf

Water management is not an engineering matter alone, it involves ecological, socio- political, administrative and legal concerns. Gender is a key factor but has been neglected both conventionally and in recent water reform policies and structures. Yet, a cross-section of South Asian women have challenged socio-cultural norms and crossed personal and professional boundaries to make a profound impact on water and sanitation management. Their inspiring stories have scarcely been documented. This book is the first to profile women from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka – women at the grassroots or with NGOs, women activists, journalists, administrators, scientists, academics, action-researchers - who have faced challenges related to water with courage and determination. Complementing the 32 women’s voices is data compiled from an analysis of the situation of women water professionals in the region. Written in an engaging manner, this book will be of interest both to the general reader and to academics and practitioners in water management and gender/women’s studies. Published by Zubaan.

Author : Sayeed Iftekhar Ahmed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Poor women
ISBN : 0739175270

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Water for Poor Women by Sayeed Iftekhar Ahmed Pdf

Water for Poor Women: Quest for an Alternative Paradigm, by Sayeed Iftekhar Ahmed, develops an alternative governance paradigm to ensure poor women's water security through their participation in the governance process. This study assesses the effects of governance on water di...

Author : Anne Coles,Tina Wallace
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000189858

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Gender, Water and Development by Anne Coles,Tina Wallace Pdf

There is a renewed global commitment to 'water for all'. Yet even though women are usually responsible for domestic water provision, their needs and voices continue to be marginalized in the development process. A close analysis of current policy and practice shows that organizations providing improved water supplies to poor communities typically neglect the gendered nature of access to and control over water resources. The resulting gender bias causes inefficiencies and injustices in water provision and reduces the effectiveness of well-meant efforts. This book shows how, in different environmental, historical and cultural contexts, gender has been an important element in water provision. It draws on a wide range of first-hand material, analyzed from different disciplinary perspectives. Case studies include analysis of the role of water in inhibiting the fight against HIV/AIDS in southern Africa, and the challenges of taking gender into account in large water projects in India and Nepal.

Author : UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231004537

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Taking Stock of Progress Towards Gender Equality in the Water Domain by UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme Pdf

Author : Caroline Sweetman,Louise Medland
Publisher : Working in Gender & Developmen
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Science
ISBN : 1788530837

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Gender and Water Sanitation and Hygiene by Caroline Sweetman,Louise Medland Pdf

At birth and death, and each day in between, individual human need for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) is near constant. While WASH is intensely personal, it is also about power, inequality, development and social justice. Inadequate WASH provision both results from and causes continuing poverty, and serves to reinforce gender and other inequalities. Women and girls experience WASH needs differently from men, both as individuals, and as societies' carers. Gender and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene highlights the importance of WASH provision for women and girls in their own right, as carers for families and communities, and as key to women's empowerment.

Author : Anne Hellum,Patricia Kameri-Mbote
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781779222879

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Water is Life by Anne Hellum,Patricia Kameri-Mbote Pdf

This book approached water and sanitation as an African gender and human rights issue. Empirical case studies from Kenya, Malawi, South Africa and Zimbabwe show how coexisting international, national and local regulations of water and sanitation respond to the ways in which different groups of rural and urban women gain access to water for personal, domestic and livelihood purposes. The authors, who are lawyers, sociologists, political scientists and anthropologists, explore how women cope in contexts where they lack secure rights, and participation in water governance institutions, formal and informal. The research shows how women - as producers of family food - rely on water from multiple sources that are governed by community based norms and institutions which recognise the right to water for livelihood. How these common pool water resources - due to protection gaps in both international and national law - are threatened by large-scale development and commercialisation initiatives, facilitated through national permit systems, is a key concern. The studies demonstrate that existing water governance structures lack mechanisms which make them accountable to poor and vulnerable water users on the ground, most importantly women. The findings thus underscore the need to intensify measures to hold states accountable, not just in water services provision, but in assuring the basic human right to clean drinking water and sanitation; and also to protect water for livelihoods.

Author : Zdeňka Kalnická
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 142575287X

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Water and Women in Past, Present and Future by Zdeňka Kalnická Pdf

The United Nations has proclaimed the 21st century to be the century of water. In this volume, Water and Women in Past, Present and Future, scholars analyze the gendered political economy of water resource allocations and importantly, offer recommendations for viable, women-friendly solutions to address scarcity and distribution, among other issues. Contributors also explore feminist analyses of the aesthetic dimension of water and the feminine, since water is often associated with women, shown in cross-cultural examples of mythology, symbols and legends. Intersecting the fields of hydro-politics and aesthetics, this book should be of interest to policy analysts, activists, and academics.

Author : Kenton Geer
Publisher : Mountain Arbor Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1665300655

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Vicious Cycle by Kenton Geer Pdf

Most fisherman don't really fish just to catch fish. While we might appear to only fill our boats with fish, the reality is fishing fills our hearts with purpose. Many of us don't conform to land well, or even at all. We often find ourselves more lost on dirt and grass than a parakeet in the middle of the ocean. The rogue nature of men who often live in vast waters without roads and traffic signs makes for a bad fit in a society filled with rules and regulations. Our relationship with the opposite sex is perhaps the most difficult aspect of being a fisherman. We often fight a winless battle between our primordial desire to be accepted and loved versus the unrelenting beckoning of the ocean. A fisherman has two lives: the one where he stares at sea from land and the life where he stares at land from sea. For the fisherman, the question is not whether joy or pain are on the horizon for they've come to learn that both live hand in hand. The sea teaches men they cannot appreciate joy without knowing pain, and pain is not fully recognized without first experiencing joy. Loads of fish and welcoming arms are the Ying to the Yang in the darkest nights, both at sea and ashore. Despite being shackled to both like an anchor to a chain, fisherman will forever be hopelessly torn apart so long as the sea has fish, and the land has women. Vicious Cycle is a collection of the author's personal tales from the sea and personal battles on land, likely resonating with every man who calls the sea home. Geer loved the ocean before he even truly knew the definition of love. He spent his lifetime trying to be nothing more than accepted as a fisherman. Now, he shares those stories and those challenges with you. This book is for those that understand that beauty can be found in something that seemingly possess no traits of the traditional definition of beautiful.

Author : Joanne Robertson
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781772602302

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The Water Walker by Joanne Robertson Pdf

The story of a determined Ojibwe Grandmother (Nokomis) Josephine-ba Mandamin and her great love for Nibi (water). Nokomis walks to raise awareness of our need to protect Nibi for future generations, and for all life on the planet. She, along with other women, men, and youth, have walked around all the Great Lakes from the four salt waters, or oceans, to Lake Superior. The walks are full of challenges, and by her example Josephine-ba invites us all to take up our responsibility to protect our water, the giver of life, and to protect our planet for all generations.

Author : Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Publisher : Oneworld
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Autonomy (Psychology)
ISBN : 1786078589

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The First Woman by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Pdf

A dazzling feminist coming of age tale from the award-winning author of Kintu