Hoefsloot, Fenna;
Richter, Christine;
Martinez, Javier;
Pfeffer, Karin;
(2022)
The datafication of water infrastructure and its implications for (il)legible water consumers.
Urban Geography
, 44
(4)
pp. 729-751.
10.1080/02723638.2021.2019499.
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Abstract
Redevelopments of Lima’s water infrastructure aim to reduce inequalities in water consumption, connections, and coverage by implementing data technologies and claim to make urban water management more efficient. However, little research has been done on how the city’s hydrosocial geography is shaped by the increasing use of data for the supervision and control of its water infrastructure. This article analyzes the datafication of Lima’s water infrastructure as the interplay between different legibility-making practices to understand how the use of multiple, interoperable and real-time data sources, shapes the hydrosocial geography of the city as well as the relationship between Lima’s main provider of water and sewerage services (SEDAPAL) and urban water consumers across three scales: newly urbanized areas, water sectors, and households. We conclude that, in an already unequal urban landscape, the datafication strategically (re)structures the relationship between SEDAPAL, as a state organization managing the water infrastructure, and Lima’s residents.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The datafication of water infrastructure and its implications for (il)legible water consumers |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02723638.2021.2019499 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2021.2019499 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Water infrastructure, datafication, Lima, legibility making, smart urbanism |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Geography |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10201334 |
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