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Governing Water Resource Allocation: Water User Association Characteristics and the Role of the State
(2021)
Water, as a common pool resource, is threatened by the possibility of overextraction generating a negative economic impact, conflicts among users, and greater income inequality. Scholars have discussed different governance ...
Socio-hydrological Analysis Protocol Adaptation to NW São Paulo State, Brazil
(2021-01-01)
Groundwater is an economically viable resource for the supply of agricultural, industrial, public and small rural areas. However, there is a lack of knowledge about groundwater quantity and quality issues, being a passive ...
Construction of Water Communities in MexicoConstrucción de comunidades hídricas en MéxicoConstrução de comunidades hídricas no México
(Universidad del Rosario, 2014)
Taking into account the concept of imagined water communities elaborated by Benedict Anderson (1983) in this paper, we have studied cases about originary communities that have developed identity processes and collective ...
Determinants of Performance of Drinking-Water Community Organizations
(Environment for Development, 2010-02)
This paper presents an institutional analysis of the underlying factors affecting the performance of drinking-water community organizations in rural areas of Costa Rica. These organizations provide water to more than 60 ...
Water Meters and Monthly Bills Meet Rural Brazilian Communities: Sociological Perspectives on Technical Objects for Water Management
(Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved, 2016)
Legal disputes as a proxy for regional conflicts over water rights in Chile
(2016)
Water demand and climate variability increases competition and tension between water users agricultural, industrial, mining, hydropower- and local communities. Since 1981, the Water Code has regulated water allocation ...
Legal disputes as a proxy for regional conflicts over water rights in Chile
(2016)
Water demand and climate variability increases competition and tension between water users agricultural, industrial, mining, hydropower- and local communities. Since 1981, the Water Code has regulated water allocation ...
Groundwater and the water-food-energy nexus: The grants for water resources use and its importance and necessity of integrated management
(Elsevier B.V., 2021-10-01)
According to the Brazilian National Water Resources Policy, water is a limited public good, and its management involves the participation of public authorities, users, and communities. This paper analyzes data on groundwater ...