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1 Bustamante, R.; Butterworth, J.; Flierman, M.; Herbas, D.; den Hollander, M.; van der Meer, S.; Ravenstijn, P.; Reynaga, M.; Zurita, G. 2004. Livelihoods in conflict: disputes over water for household-level productive uses in Tarata, Bolivia. In Moriarty, P.; Butterworth, J.; van Koppen, B. (Eds.), Beyond domestic: case studies on poverty and productive uses of water a t the household level. Delft, Netherlands: IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre; IWMI. pp.137-151.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 339.46 G000 MOR Record No: H035336)
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2 Bustamante, R.; Peredo, E.; Udaeta, M. E. 2005. Women in the “water war” in the Cochabamba Valleys. In Bennett, V.; Dávila-Poblete, S.; Rico, M. N. (Eds.), Opposing currents: The politics of water and gender in Latin America. Pittsburg, PA, USA: University of Pittsburgh Press. pp.72-90.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7088042 G302 BEN Record No: H036389)
3 de Vos, H.; Boelens, R.; Bustamante, R.. 2006. Formal law and local water control in the Andean Region: A fiercely contested field. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 22(1):37-48.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H038380)
4 Boelens, R.; Bustamante, R.; de Vos, H. 2007. Legal pluralism and the politics of inclusion: recognition and contestation of local water rights in the Andes. In van Koppen, Barbara; Giordano, Mark; Butterworth, J. (Eds.). Community-based water law and water resource management reform in developing countries. Wallingford, UK: CABI. pp.96-113. (Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture Series 5)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 346.04691 G000 VAN Record No: H040689)
5 Funder, M.; Bustamante, R.; Cossio, V.; Huong, P. T. M.; van Koppen, Barbara; Mweemba, C.; Nyambe, I.; Phuong, L. T. T.; Skielboe, T. 2012. Strategies of the poorest in local water conflict and cooperation – evidence from Vietnam, Bolivia and Zambia. Water Alternatives, 5(1): 20-36.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045505)
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Media stories often speak of a future dominated by large-scale water wars. Rather less attention has been paid to the way water conflicts play out at local levels and form part of people’s everyday lives. Based on case study studies from Vietnam, Bolivia and Zambia, this paper examines the strategies of poor households in local water conflicts. It is shown how such households may not only engage actively in collaborative water management but may also apply risk aversion strategies when faced with powerful adversaries in conflict situations. It is further shown how dependency relations between poor and wealthy households can reduce the scope of action for the poor in water conflicts. As a result, poor households can be forced to abstain from defending their water resources in order to maintain socio-economic and political ties with the very same households that oppose them in water conflicts. The paper concludes by briefly discussing how the poorest can be supported in local water conflicts. This includes ensuring that alternative spaces for expressing grievances exist and are accessible; facilitating that water sharing agreements and rights are clearly stipulated and monitored; and working beyond water governance to reduce the socio-economic dependency-relations of poor households.
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