Outputs (4)

Diversification or loading order? Divergent water-energy politics and the contradictions of desalination in southern California (2018)
Journal Article
Williams, J. (2018). Diversification or loading order? Divergent water-energy politics and the contradictions of desalination in southern California. Water alternatives, 11(3), 847-865

This paper explores the contradictory and sometimes incompatible imperatives towards enhancing water supply reliability and addressing the water-energy nexus. Using the highly contested development of seawater desalination for municipal water supply... Read More about Diversification or loading order? Divergent water-energy politics and the contradictions of desalination in southern California.

The urban resource nexus: On the politics of relationality, water-energy infrastructure, and the fallacy of integration (2018)
Journal Article
Williams, J., Bouzarivski, S., & Swyngedouw, E. (2019). The urban resource nexus: On the politics of relationality, water-energy infrastructure, and the fallacy of integration. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 37(4), 652-669. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263774x18803370

The ‘resource nexus’ has emerged over the past decade as an important new paradigm of environmental governance, which emphasises the interconnections, tensions and synergies between sectors that have traditionally been managed separately. Nexus think... Read More about The urban resource nexus: On the politics of relationality, water-energy infrastructure, and the fallacy of integration.

The Ocean Bountiful? De-salination, de-politicisation, and binational water governance on the Colorado River (2018)
Book Chapter
Williams, J. (2018). The Ocean Bountiful? De-salination, de-politicisation, and binational water governance on the Colorado River. In F. Menga, & E. Swyngedouw (Eds.), Water, technology and the nation-state (19-33). Routledge

In May 2010 an extraordinary document was published. Although technical in nature and understated in terms of its political implications, this document in many ways represented the culmination of nearly a century of disputes on the Colorado River. Ei... Read More about The Ocean Bountiful? De-salination, de-politicisation, and binational water governance on the Colorado River.

Assembling the water factory: Seawater desalination and the techno-politics of water privatisation in the San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan region (2018)
Journal Article
Williams, J. (2018). Assembling the water factory: Seawater desalination and the techno-politics of water privatisation in the San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan region. Geoforum, 93, 32-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.04.022

This paper is about the peculiar particularities of the dual trends towards urban water privatization and commodification. It uses as its analytical entry point the extraordinary emergence of large-scale seawater desalination, delivered through publi... Read More about Assembling the water factory: Seawater desalination and the techno-politics of water privatisation in the San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan region.