This paper examines the emergence of a new logic of water management in developing cities. We argue that water provision is characterised by two largely disconnected circuits of water supply. Formally organised distribution networks provide a publicly subsidised service to higher-income users,...

It is no longer controversial to assert that the ‘mainstream’ of economic-geographical theorising, including that which defines itself as ‘international’, emerges from the experiences of Anglo-American regions and is articulated largely in the pages of ‘major international journals’,...