Tap water's availability, accessibility, and biological safety do not automatically translate into social acceptance. Most Americans no longer drink water directly from the tap but rely on either filters or bottled water. As demonstrated by fieldwork among New York City water-filter users, filters have the power to restore tap water's acceptability, making this an interesting site to examine the imagined qualities of water and the technopolitics of filtration. Such an examination allows the ethnographic gaze to attend to both the monumental and mundane operations of infrastructures. Unlike other mediating technologies, water filters have a salient catch-all quality, one that allows filters in the US to participate in a plurality of hydrosocial situations. They furthermore mediate multiple worries and projects around tap water, and they give a semblance of control to users equipped with diverse understandings of how filters function.

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包罗万象的技术政治

自来水的可用性、可及性和生物安全性不会自动转化为社会接受度。大多数美国人不再直接从水龙头喝水，而是依赖过滤器或瓶装水。正如纽约市滤水器用户的实地调查所证明的那样，过滤器有能力恢复自来水的可接受性，这使它成为一个有趣的网站来检查想象中的水质和过滤技术政治。这样的检查允许民族志的目光关注基础设施的巨大和平凡运作。与其他中介技术不同，滤水器具有显着的包罗万象的特性，它允许美国的过滤器参与多种水社会情况。他们还调解了围绕自来水的多种担忧和项目，