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There is no water
coming out of my TAP!
In this paper, first delivered at The
Tributaries Project Seminar (March 8)
and reworked for presentation at The
Tributaries Project Colloquium (Nov 20),
Prof Duker offered a reflection that, as
she put it, “is intended as a wry and
tragicomic autoethnographic narrative
about the relationship between
privileged suburbanites and water. I
take as a point of departure the social
media posts to a local group (of which I
am part). These posts indicate, through
the copious use of emojis representing
‘crossness,’ the frustration,
bewilderment and, ultimately, the
disturbing ineffectuality experienced in
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