Infrastructures of potable water and counterinsurgency in Metro Manila

Blog: LSE Southeast Asia Blog

Abstract

Metro Manila's water is said to be potable if you ask the government waterworks office. However, its consumer-clients, primarily the middle class, and remarkably including the water bureaucrats themselves, have been subsisting on bottled, filtered water. Distrust in the safety of tap water is not a recent development. While infrastructures and technologies are considered emblems … Continued