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Título: Robbing Yadullah’s water to irrigate Saeid’s garden: hydrology and water rights in a village of Central Iran
Autores: Molle, Francois
Mamanpoush, Alireza
Miranzadeh, Mokhtar
Fecha: 2009-08-26
2009-08-26
2004
Publicador: AgEcon
Fuente:
Tipo: Report
Tema: Water allocation
Water rights
Irrigation management
Drought
Wells
Dams
Canals
Legal aspects
Villages
Iran
Zayandeh Rud Basin
Jalalabad
Najafabad
Community/Rural/Urban Development
Consumer/Household Economics
Crop Production/Industries
Environmental Economics and Policy
Farm Management
Land Economics/Use
Public Economics
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
Descripción: This report provides a case study from the province of Esfahan, in central Iran, describing the struggle of a village to secure the water resources without which local agriculture, and altogether life in the village, would be impossible. It illustrates the endless ingenuity of farmers in their quest for water, how land and water rights have developed, how various legal repertoires may conflict with one another, and how the intervention of the state transformed the wider hydrological cycle of the valley and affected the delicate equilibrium between population and resources that had prevailed until then. The report estimates the costs of accessing one cubic meter from each of these different sources and shows how political interventions or drought mitigation policies elicit solutions that are extremely costly.
Idioma: en