The Critique of Modern Water and the Proposition on Multiple Water Ontologies through Hydrosocial Perspectives : A Literature Review
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Modern water management has been criticized recently. The ‘Modern Water’ concept has been presented in a hydrologic cycle. It regards water as a natural resource necessity for economic growth and human exploitation. So, it merely recognizes water as a physical dimension: being neutral H2O and embedded in economic modernization. In the modern nation-state, therefore, water could be controlled and manipulated by scientific knowledge, a modern bureaucracy system, and water experts. As a result, modern water is becoming dominant when talking about water governance. Yet as modern water management dismissed the social and political dimensions of water, then hydrosocial perspectives appear to criticize ‘Modern Water.’ It suggests a new way of looking at water by proposing that in fact, water and society interplay whereby water makes and remakes society, or vice versa, over time and space. Therefore, these perspectives offer a new way of looking at water through a relationship between society and material water, and opportunities to embrace water ontologies in policy and practices.
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