This exhibition explores the role of water in the struggle of Colombia’s capital to become a modern city. For Bogotá, complying with the standards of sanitary reformers and the governing elite was a social, technological, and environmental control endeavor. The exhibition examines everyday and gendered experiences of water, such as washing clothes or bathing, as well as urban infrastructural interventions including the domestication of rivers for water supply and wastewater disposal systems.

Introduction
Acknowledgments
Female laundry workers
Bathrooms and hygiene
Supply and consumption
Waste and water pollution
Historical cartography
Primary sources
Further reading
This exhibition has been created by Stefania Gallini, Laura Felacio, Angélica Agredo and Stephanie Garcés (2014) under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International license, this refers only to the text. For copyright information on the above images, please click here.

Gallini, Stefania, Laura Felacio, Angélica Agredo, and Stephanie Garcés. “The City’s Currents: A History of Water in 20th-Century Bogotá.” Environment & Society Portal, Virtual Exhibitions 2014, no. 3. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/6295.

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