Disputing, negotiating and accomodating as means to acquire and protect water rights: a case study of conflicts in Dang.
1997
Pradhan M.C. | Pradhan R.
This paper discusses the means used to acquire or protect water rights in farmer managed irrigation systems. It will be argued that the specific means used by the stakeholders depend on which strategy they consider most suitable in the existing situation, social relations between them and the options available. It will also be argued that the law which is used to justify claims are not only fixed 'customary law' or 'state law', but local rules or local law, generated by the local people. The paper describes three conflict cases in Telia Kulo (Guhar Khola Irrigation Project) to illustrate how conflicts arise and disputing and negotiations are used to acquire or protect water rights as well as how and what rules are generated by the stakeholders.
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