In the early 2010s, Texas suffered a historic drought that drew attention to the long-term limits and vulnerabilities of its water system and that prompted the state legislature, in its 2013 session, to take on water as one of its key policy issues. With near unanimity, the Legislature passed a...

This paper argues that the concept of water as a ‘resource' enables an understanding of the spread of American technocratic expertise as deployed in the Indus basin. This development knowledge at the start of the post-colonial moment replaced the vacating empire of the Raj, with the emergence...

The purpose of the Resilient Water Infrastructure Design Brief is to guide users on how resilience can be built into the engineering design of their project. With a focus on the three natural hazards most likely to affect water and sanitation infrastructure (droughts, floods, and high winds from...