Abstract Global climate change poses a serious threat to the water supplies of the world's cities. This is perhaps no truer than for Dar es Salaam, the largest city and commercial capital of Tanzania. What was eighty years ago a small town of a mere forty thousand residents is today the world's second-fastest growing city, with a population of more than six million. This growth has come despite a history of racist, colonial urban development and the inadequacy of its formal water supply, which services a fraction of the needs of its residents. This essay examines the development of Dar es Salaam's anthropogenic waterscape, or water infrastructure, and argues that the city's tremendous growth has come despite its inability to provide basic services. In the absence of reliable public water, its residents have adapted creatively, developing their own solutions in a way that has drawn on knowledge and practice from rural areas as well as new urban-centered strategies. This history of creative adaptation, and its benefits and drawbacks, provides a useful framework for thinking about the meaning of resilience in Africa's urban centers in an era of increasing climate uncertainty.

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Bongo 的水：创造性的适应、复原力和达累斯萨拉姆的供水

摘要 全球气候变化对世界城市的供水构成严重威胁。对于坦桑尼亚最大的城市和商业首都达累斯萨拉姆来说，这也许是最真实的。八十年前的一个只有四万居民的小镇，如今是世界上发展速度第二快的城市，人口超过六百万。尽管存在种族主义和殖民城市发展的历史，而且其正规供水不足，但这种增长已经到来，而这些供水只能满足居民的一小部分需求。本文考察了达累斯萨拉姆人为水景或水利基础设施的发展，并认为尽管无法提供基本服务，但该市的巨大增长已经到来。在没有可靠的公共用水的情况下，它的居民进行了创造性的调整，利用农村地区的知识和实践以及以城市为中心的新战略，开发了自己的解决方案。创造性适应的历史及其利弊，为在气候不确定性日益增加的时代思考非洲城市中心复原力的意义提供了一个有用的框架。