ABSTRACT This article focuses on the problem of water losses, taken up through a discussion of a contentious infrastructure project called Operation Gcin’amanzi. It shows how Johannesburg Water worked to make a set of infrastructural and institutional-political ‘problems’ visible through numbers, highlighting important shifts in technologies of government. Today water loss auditing is becoming more important in the management of water infrastructure, and the story of Operation Gcin’amanzi is a significant episode in this history. I return to Operation Gcin’amanzi, then, in order to say something about the present, and specifically the ways technologies of government like the audit are reshaping practices for managing not only the built infrastructure, but also the human networks that connect to it.

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无收益水和无收益生活：对约翰内斯堡水损失的形成和减轻的反思

摘要 本文通过对名为“Gcin'amanzi 行动”的有争议的基础设施项目的讨论来讨论水流失问题。它展示了约翰内斯堡水务如何通过数字使一系列基础设施和制度政治“问题”变得可见，突出了政府技术的重要转变。今天，水损失审计在水基础设施管理中变得越来越重要，Gcin'amanzi 行动的故事是这段历史中的一个重要事件。我回到 Gcin'amanzi 行动，然后，为了谈谈现在，特别是像审计这样的政府技术正在重塑管理实践的方式，不仅管理已建成的基础设施，而且还管理与之相连的人际网络。