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Martha Kaplan
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Aug 12, 2026
Who Do You Trust With Your Water?
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Paul RyerHOST
Martha, if I could ask you to speak a little about some of your recent work in Singapore with the, I-- am I pronouncing this right, the NEWater Initiative and the Four Taps? If you could just describe a little of this project that you're writing up, I think it'll give our audience a starting point to sort of put our conversation in context.

Martha KaplanGUEST
Thank you for the question, and also thank you for this wonderful invitation to speak in this AR podcast and with Amber and yourself.

Martha KaplanGUEST
Okay, so the, the big picture here is my interest overall in understanding how people's water is meaningful to them, all right? And I am interested in what I have been calling water cultures because there are a diversity of ways in the world that people engage with water, imagine what is good for water and for their larger, for their larger social lives.

Martha KaplanGUEST
I studied in, in Fiji a deep history of, of Fijian ritual political relationship, especially using water in a community that had been called by colonial officials dangerous and disaffected, and had used water as part of their mobilization against colonial incursion.
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Yeah