Gaining Access to Water: Formal and Working Rules of Indigenous Irrigation Management on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
Year: 1997
Type: article
Abstract: Using the example of indigenous irrigation on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, this paper illustrates that operating beneath the formal of irrigation organization is a series of rules that people use to actually obtain access to water. It is argued that one of the reasons that indigenous irrigation systems are sustainable and flexible is because the working allow water users to adjust their formal water right to an amount and timing of water that matches their needs more closely. If interventions into indigenous irrigation systems are to be effective and sustainable, and not undermine the institutions which govern water use within the irrigation system concerned, then development agencies need to understand, work with, and work through the working rules. This paper considers ways in which this may be achieved.
Author: Mary E. Gillingham
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2182745960