Concept information
Preferred term
water organization
Definition
- When water moves from rivers and reservoirs through canals and pipelines to fulfill crop consumptive needs, when it moves through urban water treatment plants to serve household and industrial requirements, when it is left in-stream for recreational and ecological purposes, it is because people have socially organized to make such things happen. How water organizations are socially constructed to capture, distribute, and dispose of any given society's water resources has everything to do with human productivity, distributional equity, and environmental sustainability. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Problems; Water Organization]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/water_organization
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