Sharing difficult waters: Community-based groundwater recharge and use in Algeria and India
| Autor: | Kuper, Marcel, Saidani, Mohamed Amine, Aslekar, Uma, Kemerink-Seyoum, Jeltsje |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Gestion de l'Eau, Acteurs, Usages (UMR G-EAU), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM) (BRGM)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-AgroParisTech-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut Agro Montpellier, Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro), Département Environnements et Sociétés (Cirad-ES), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad), Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II (IAV Hassan II), Centre de recherches en économie appliquée au développement (CREAD), Advanced Center for Water Resources Development and Management (ACWADAM), Institute for Water Education (IHE Delft ), ANR-18-NT2S-0002,T2GS,Transformations pour une durabilité des eaux souterraines : apprentissages communs des interactions homme-eau(2018) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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India
résolution des conflits fonciers Institutions [SDE.ES]Environmental Sciences/Environmental and Society eau souterraine Knowledge Recharge de la nappe Water infrastructure Gestion des eaux Water sharing Algeria Gouvernance approches communautaires P10 - Ressources en eau et leur gestion Irrigation |
| Zdroj: | Water Alternatives Water alternatives Water alternatives, 2023, 16 (1), pp.108-133 |
| ISSN: | 1965-0175 |
| Popis: | International audience; The intentional recharge and use of aquifers for drinking, domestic use and irrigation is one of the most elaborate community initiatives in groundwater governance. Communities deal with difficult waters like flash floods and runoff for short periods, and for more prolonged periods with dry spells that prompt frugality in water use. These collective systems have been challenged in recent decades by the massive development of individual boreholes; these have emerged in connection with intensive groundwater-based agriculture and have led to unsustainable groundwater exploitation. This article analyses how communities have been confronted with, and have resisted, such challenges in recent times. It focuses on two long-standing and functional community aquifer recharge and use systems, one in Algeria (M'Zab Valley) and the other in India (Randullabad, in the state of Maharashtra). We show that sharing such difficult waters requires, first, practice-based and shared knowledge of the complex interactions between the surface and groundwater that is collectively owned by the community; second, robust collective action to maintain and operate the common infrastructure that is undergoing continuous adaptation to the particular socionatural conditions of a specific area; and, third, adaptive institutions to carefully balance available water resources and their frugal use. Our analysis shows that community governance of groundwater is embedded in social norms and meanings and that these are expressed in the frugal use of scarce resources and/or the continuous challenging of irresponsible water use when it threatens domestic water supply. These community initiatives can represent sources of inspiration for ecologically sustainable and socially equitable forms of groundwater governance, even in very challenging situations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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