The relational emergence of community and technology through the politics of water use

Urban Farm DB summary

Drawing on participant observation and 25 walking interviews at three community gardens in Sydney, Australia, this study examined how water use is shaped through relationships between community members and water technologies such as tanks, taps and buckets. It found that water practices emerge in relation to shifting water availability, time, technology and gardeners' proximity to home, and that gardeners express community-mindedness by sharing water, guided by feelings of guilt over wastefulness and by their individual gardening goals.