WISDOM: Learning from Group Water Schemes

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 @geogsocire • #RoscommonWeek • #YearOfGeography

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 @geogsocire • #RoscommonWeek • #YearOfGeography

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 @geogsocire • #RoscommonWeek • #YearOfGeography

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/ @geogsocire • #RoscommonWeek • #YearOfGeography

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/ arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/inde… @geogsocire • #RoscommonWeek • #YearOfGeography

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/ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… @geogsocire • #RoscommonWeek • #YearOfGeography

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/ @geogsocire • #RoscommonWeek • #YearOfGeography

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

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/ @geogsocire • #RoscommonWeek • #YearOfGeography

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

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 waterschemes.ie/2019/06/13/a… @geogsocire • #RoscommonWeek • #YearOfGeography

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 waterschemes.ie/2018/09/07/d… @geogsocire • #RoscommonWeek • #YearOfGeography

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 @geogsocire • #RoscommonWeek • #YearOfGeography