Save the date for Tess Farmer's talk and reception celebrating her new book! 

Who is responsible for ensuring access to clean potable water? In this talk, I follow residents of Ezbet Khairallah, an informal neighborhood of Cairo, as they labor to exchange, value, and evaluate potable water and to eliminate wastewater. I argue that urban residents’ practices are a locally specific form of the sociality of water, integral to the project of being well connected--to other people, to the neighborhood, and to state-run water infrastructures. While being well connected is often thought of as an elite project, I show how the deployment of connections is equally important to those who live on the urban margins.