Rain Tanks, Springs, and Broken Pipes As Emerging Water Commons Along Salmon Creek, CA, USA

摘要: Large waterworks helped to produce California's cities, agricultural bounty, and attendant discourses of progress, private property, human control over riverine ecosystems (Woelfle-Erskine, 2007). However, the past two decades, water governance has been decentralized some infrastructure diversified with rain tank retrofits, creating new local waterscapes in interstices ‘hydraulic society’ (California Department Water Resources, 2005; Worster, 1992). These emerge entangled alternate human-ecological collaboration as a public trust or commons, which turn generate cultural practices strategies press). I develop field interview approach investigate how installing tanks initiates shifts environmental imaginaries along Salmon Creek (Sonoma County). There, collaborative citizen-agency project date installed total capacity million litres, aiming improve security for rural residents increase late-summer streamflow benefit endangered salmon. Residents who participate monitoring salmon populations, quality, their own springs report that these activities have increased sense interdependence other nonhuman neighbours rely on watershed’s limited sources. Drawing Barad’s (2007) concepts apparatus intra-action, argue notion an interspecies commons is co-evolving rainwater harvesting collective choice frameworks embrace both management represent coherent alternative state market traditional adaptive methods discourses.