Introduction -- Part I. Sensing the beautiful stranger -- Exhibiting the electric city -- Part II. Trapped under the wheels of modernity -- Ladrones de luz: a scripted electricscape, 1901-1918 -- Part III. Becoming electro-domésticas: electrical appliances, maids, and middle-class domesticity,...

This book explores the interface between environmental and social elements of water pricing policies in OECD countries. It focuses on the affordability of water services, as well as on the social measures aimed at resolving these affordability problems