WISDOM: Learning from Group Water Schemes

a research project connecting water, infrastructures, and people – led by @PBresnihan at @tcddublin – funded by @EPAResearchNews

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Images from most recent trip to Mayo where we visited the wonderful Michael Davitt Museum in Straide @davittmuseum https://t.co/QngrTWADfV

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We have updated the 'Images from the field' section of our website with a number of recent trips. Check it out here: https://t.co/bjucWPTOYN

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Some images and thoughts from our recent trip back to Lough Cara, Co. Mayo - so grateful for the people who showed us around again and shared their deep knowledge of the place https://t.co/tB0IJFHprR

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It is a theoretically rich and empirically grounded discipline, uniquely positioned to respond to the complex social, political and environmental challenges that Ireland will face in the 21st century. 3/3

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Geography, more than any other area of study, equips students with a breadth of knowledge and analytical tools applicable to the people and places they know. 2/3

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It has been an honour to tell you about Roscommon and our research on its Group Water Schemes. We believe that geographical work in and about the county demonstrates the great value of the discipline. 1/3

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Checkout this video of the 'Anatomy of a Group Water Scheme' that we have released for #RoscommonWeek.

https://t.co/yJh8SS3a4S

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A focus on the rurality of Ireland's political economy encourages us to rethink the relationship between the core and the periphery, and the very way which urbanisation, industrialisation and financialisation take place. 6/

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His work continues to be of relevance to Roscommon and the Irish countryside. The story map 'How Milk Went Global' is a wonderful, thought-provoking introduction to the contemporary dairy industry. 5/

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[patrick bresnihan @PBresnihan]

Wood's (2007) concept of the global countryside, which draws rurality into work on globalisation and vice versa, was an important response to the more popular notion of a global city. 4/

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There are of course important exceptions to this. Michael Woods (@WoodsZzp), for example, has done much to bring rural geography into the forefront of the discipline. 3/

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[patrick bresnihan @PBresnihan]

For its part, rural geography remains an empirically-oriented subdiscipline, which has been shy of engaging in geography's animating theoretical debates. 2/

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[patrick bresnihan @PBresnihan]

Unfortunately, rurality has long been a neglected topic in geographical work on political economy, where emphasis is instead placed on urbanisation, industrialisation and (more recently) financialisation. 1/

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For the final day of #RoscommonWeek we are looking at the county from the perspective of (geographical) political economy.

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Political Economies: Energy Infrastructures in Roscommon
The ESB has a great archive documenting the history of rural electrification beginning in the 1940s: https://t.co/NTzGv4Lxuw

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Political Economies: Energy Justice and contentious politics in Rural Roscommon, Resisting battery farms

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Political Economies: Ghost Estates in Tulsk

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We have created a topological map of the Pollacat Springs GWS treatment plant in an attempt to better explore how this has been achieved. The map can be interactively explored across three phases. 4/4

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In Roscommon this has been achieved in collaboration with third-party providers such as Veolia and Glan Agua, through state-sponsored Design, Build and Operate contracts. 3/4

https://t.co/q867GmmLnC

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Demand for high quality drinking water has required schemes to construct water treatment facilities that are able to cope with fluctuations in the colour and turbidity of their source waters. 2/4

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