Working Paper: Drinking-Water and drinking water: Trajectories of Provision and Consumption in the UK, Taiwan and Delhi

Pre-industrial configurations of water and sewage in the UK (c) 2012 University of Essex

This paper, Drinking-Water and drinking water: Trajectories of Provision and Consumption in the UK, Taiwan and Delhiby Mark Harvey considers the economic sociology and political economy of drinking water infrastructures in the UK, Delhi and Taiwan to show how the emergence of all-purpose (including drinking) water was the outcome of long and varied historical processes, involving major changes in both systems of provision and patterns of consumption.