Conjunctive use of surface and ground water resources in a community-managed irrigation system — The case of the Sidi Okba palm grove in the Algerian Sahara

Hamamouche, Meriem Farah; Kuper, Marcel; Riaux, Jeanne; Leduc, Christian

doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2017.08.005

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“…Water rights were then distributed proportionally to the number of palm trees per garden. After the dam came into service, a new and unexpected water resource emerged: dam leakages of about 180–480 m 3 h −1 (Hamamouche et al ., ). This resource was integrated into the surface irrigation system of the four palm groves (Seriana, Gharta, T'Houda and Sidi Okba).…”

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Overlapping Groundwater Service Markets in a Palm Grove in the Algerian Sahara

Hamamouche

Kuper

Hartani³

et al. 2017

Irrigation and Drainage

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Groundwater service markets are important and dynamic institutions that provide water to a wide range of farmers in many regions. However, these institutions represent arenas of complex and often antagonistic relations, which determine which farmers gain access to water and how. This study analyses the emergence and functioning of groundwater service markets from a historical perspective to advance the understanding of the role of social power games in shaping these institutions. The study was conducted in the Sidi Okba oasis in the Algerian Sahara, where over recent decades, four (in)formal, often overlapping, groundwater service markets have emerged. These markets were shaped progressively by socio‐ethnic antagonism, state intervention and economic competition between water sellers. By continuously adjusting these institutions, the highly diverse irrigation community prevented the emergence of a monopoly in groundwater sales and maintained the balance of power between water sellers and buyers by countering possible control of groundwater access by a single socio‐ethnic or economic group. The demonstrated ability of the irrigation community to craft rules to ensure these groundwater service markets function should encourage public actors to mobilize this capacity to deal with the drop in water tables, which is one adverse outcome of the ‘success' of these markets. Copyright © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Overlapping Groundwater Service Markets in a Palm Grove in the Algerian Sahara

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Kuper

Hartani³

et al. 2017

Irrigation and Drainage

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“…Some emblematic examples of such irrigation systems include the foggara (called khettara in Morocco, qanat in Iran), which are underground galleries leading groundwater by gravity to irrigated plots, the spate irrigation systems that divert and spread flash floods over land and the ghout, which are shallow basins allowing palm trees to draw water from nearby phreatic aquifers (Bisson, 2003). These community-managed irrigation systems are often admired for their elaborate irrigation infrastructure and contributions to landscape configuration, and equally for how they have shaped fine-tuned irrigation institutions, enabling access and governing the sharing of water (Hamamouche et al, 2017). At the same time, these strongly rooted customary institutions (dealing with issues including water rights and landownership) were based on strong social hierarchies and inequalities, and can in no way be described "as benign or as egalitarian" (Ilahiane, 2004;p.…”

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“…Nevertheless, quite a number of the community-managed irrigation systems are still active today and a few are even re-activated, sometimes by those who had earlier left for the extensions. In these irrigation systems, the irrigators made a number of changes in the physical infrastructure (in some cases subsidized by the state) as well as in the institutions governing the access to and sharing of water (Hamamouche et al, 2017). For instance, Idda et al (2017) report on five foggara reinforced by pumped groundwater in Adrar (Algeria); these were financed by the state after a social mobilization, as their foggara were running dry because of the drilling of a deep borehole in the vicinity for drinking water.…”

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Rooted water collectives: Towards an analytical framework

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Boelens

Venot

et al. 2020

Ecological Economics

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“…Des marquages de l'espace accompagnent l'appropriation de nouvelles infrastructures et révèlent l'évolution des pratiques et représentations de l'eau par les acteurs (Ripoll et Veschambre, 2005). La manière dont les ouvrages s'ancrent localement souligne l'importance des continuités dans l'histoire sociale de l'irrigation (Ciriacy-Wantrup, 1969 ;Marié, 1984 ;Hamamouche et al, 2017).…”

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