True or False. The worldwide need to provide an adequate supply of clean water has become an urgent theme in anthropology. Anthr
opologically, water is not only a resource, but also a substance that connects society. Anthropologists examine the different forms of water valuation, the often unequal distribution of water, the rules and institutions that govern water use and shape water politics, and the multiple, often conflicting knowledge systems through which actors understand water. Anthropological studies of water offer ethnographic insights into key water sites (watersheds, water regimes, and waterscapes, etc.). The concept of integrated water resource management (IWRM) has become hegemonic in the global discourse of sustainable development and is actively studied by anthropologists.
The relationship between water and humans is universal in social life, without water there is no life and humanity cannot survive without it. These are premises of common sense and the biological sciences. The way in which this relationship is established and the particular meaning attributed to it in each geographical, ethnographic and historical context are already objects of anthropological attention.
