ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on four colonial and postcolonial moments in Zambia, emplacing hegemonic concepts around water governance within the Zambian socio-waterscape. The moments include: engineering for urban malaria control in the 1930s, the building of the Kariba Dam in the 1950s, and urban domestic water services in both colonial and neo-liberal eras. In each of these, the chapter explores: hegemonic concepts about water travel to Zambia and the implementation and bundling of hegemonic concepts shaped by local context. Then it examines how social and material remnants from a past of 'private water' influence the current experience of water privatization in Zambian cities. The chapter has shown how networks of discourses, ideologies and institutions have changed not only how water is managed but towards what ends. Concurrently, water is separated from social, political and economic relationships to make certain practices appear objective and impartial.
