The Formal Recognition of Local Water Rights in Yanque, Colca Valley, Peru

2016 ◽  
pp. 82-108
Author(s):  
Miriam Seemann
Keyword(s):  
Water Rights ◽  
Colca Valley ◽  
Local Water ◽  
Formal Recognition

Complementarity between water pricing, water rights and local water governance: A Bayesian analysis of choice behaviour of farmers in the Krishna river basin, India

2011 ◽  
Vol 70 (10) ◽  
pp. 1756-1766 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prakashan Chellattan Veettil ◽  
Stijn Speelman ◽  
Aymen Frija ◽  
Jeroen Buysse ◽  
Guido van Huylenbroeck
Keyword(s):  
Bayesian Analysis ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Water Governance ◽  
Water Rights ◽  
Water Pricing ◽  
Choice Behaviour ◽  
Local Water

New Water Agents and Actors in Civil Society

2018 ◽  
pp. 124-142
Author(s):  
Eric P. Perramond
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Water Rights ◽  
Water Users ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Citizen Groups ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Local Water ◽  
Level Of Understanding ◽  
Water Issues

New citizen groups, agents, and nonprofits rose to prominence in the late twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries because of water adjudication suits and because the long delays in adjudicating water rights across the state’s basins. These new water nonprofits have helped consolidate and organize a new level of understanding among some of the water sovereigns. New user groups themselves have often imposed new organizational and administrative demands on local water users. Notably, women became more active in water issues across all scales. Ironically, the adversarial and seemingly infinite process of adjudication created new forums for water users to voice their concerns even if they remain advisory in nature.

How Local Waters Become State Water

2018 ◽  
pp. 11-31
Author(s):  
Eric P. Perramond
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Water Rights ◽  
The State ◽  
Private Property Rights ◽  
The Public ◽  
Water Users ◽  
State Water ◽  
Access Rights ◽  
Local Water

New Mexico, like most western U.S. states, relies on the legal assumptions of prior appropriation to sort out historical water rights in space and in time. Early in the twentieth century, the state redefined water as owned by the public, but access rights to water were assigned as private property rights. Water rights adjudications are designed to identify water users throughout the state and quantify their water allocation. This process fundamentally rescaled water as an object and a property and was at odds with existing local water cultures and definitions of water. Local and indigenous water sovereigns contested the state’s reading of water as property, and adjudication dragged on for decades in valleys where local interests wanted water to remain with their lands.

Working for the Adjudication Industrial Complex

2018 ◽  
pp. 106-123
Author(s):  
Eric P. Perramond
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Water Rights ◽  
Federal Agencies ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Private Property Rights ◽  
Water Users ◽  
Local Water ◽  
Legal Mandate

During the twentieth century, new realms of expertise arose alongside the state’s legal mandate to find, measure, and allocate water rights. Abstract water knowledge embodied by legal, hydrological, engineering, and historical experts were produced as a consequence of redefining the human-water relationship. This legion of new water experts was centrally focused on materializing the new private property rights embedded in water as a substance. The costs of this process were enormous, as shown by the ethnographic evidence presented. The consequences are less clear. The new forms of water knowledge and expertise are now vital to state and federal agencies, as they are to local water users in the courts.

Water rights reform and water marketing: Australia vs the US West

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Hanemann ◽  
Michael Young
Keyword(s):  
Water Rights ◽  
Third Party ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Australian Water ◽  
Western Us ◽  
The Us ◽  
Willingness To Intervene ◽  
Water Marketing ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Local Water

Abstract We consider the connection between water marketing and the modification of property rights to water in Australia, highlighting the Australian’s distinctiveness through a contrast with water rights in the western US (especially California). Australia started out the same as California, but in the 1880s it abandoned California’s system and adopted a new approach, ending the common law property right to water and creating a statutory right that could be modified by administrative fiat. This shifted the arena for dispute resolution from courts to parliaments. It eliminated the seniority inherent in appropriative water rights and it sidelined issues of third-party impacts. Another difference was the tight control of irrigation institutions by state governments and the national government’s willingness to intervene in state and local water management. Australian water reform was wrapped in politics. When there were successes, this is because the politics were managed adroitly; when political challenges proved insurmountable, reform stalled.

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