5. Religion and local water rights versus land owners and state: irrigation in Izucar de Matamoros (west bank), Mexico

1996 ◽  
pp. 73-89
Author(s):  
Marc Nederlof ◽  
Eric van Wayjen
Keyword(s):  
West Bank ◽  
Water Rights ◽  
Land Owners ◽  
Local Water

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

Water Rights in the West Bank and in Gaza

2005 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 621-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
BIRGIT SCHLÜTTER
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
International Law ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Water Rights ◽  
The West ◽  
Palestinian Territories ◽  
Peace Negotiations ◽  
The World ◽  
West Bank And Gaza ◽  
International Decade

With the launch of the UN International Decade for Water on 22 March 2005, awareness is raised in the international community of the growing demand and scarcity of water for people throughout the world. Water is a particularly scarce resource in both Israel and the Palestinian Territories. The use of the water resources of the West Bank and Gaza has been part and parcel of the Israeli–Palestinian peace negotiations. With the beginning of new peace negotiations under Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas, the topic of water and its allocation to Palestinians and Israelis is back on the negotiation table. The present article will point to the water crisis in Israel and the Palestinian Territories and analyse core provisions of international law which govern the use of water resources. Finally, it will outline how an allocation of water rights according to principles of international law could take place.

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.

Adaptation in the Water Sector: Science & Institutions

Daedalus ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 144 (3) ◽  
pp. 59-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine L. Jacobs ◽  
Lester Snow
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Societal Factors ◽  
Water Users ◽  
Temperature And Precipitation ◽  
Land Owners ◽  
Water Supply And Demand ◽  
Local Water ◽  
Societal Expectations

Water management activities involve a complex and interconnected web of science, infrastructure considerations, societal expectations, and institutional limitations that has evolved over time. Much of the water management system's current complexity developed in response to the interests of local water users and land owners, historical water supply and demand issues, political demands, and water quality and environmental considerations. Climate change poses a new set of questions for water managers and may require more flexible solutions than those that have evolved historically. Although the implications of changes in the climate on water supply and demand are recognized (if not well quantified), ongoing changes in temperature and precipitation, as well as the linkages between environmental and societal factors, lead to major uncertainties in future conditions. New tools, techniques, and institutions will be needed to sustain water supplies for communities and watersheds in the future.

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