Indigenous water histories II: water histories and the cultural politics of water for contemporary Indigenous groups

Berry, Kate A.; Jackson, Sue; Cohn, Teresa Cavazos; Matsui, Kenichi

doi:10.1007/s12685-017-0195-0

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“…Imaginaries of development and progress, therefore, intertwine and blend with sentiments of sumud to produce a desire for infrastructure as a protection of land against confiscation. Examining local perspectives on water history and development (Berry et al 2017) sheds light on the Palestinians' fervent struggles within Israel to belong and remain on their land, while also forging claims for recognition within the new state which dominates and rules over them. Uneven waterscapes produced under settler colonialism expose multiple meanings and experiences of human-nature relations.…”

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Thirsty water carriers: the production of uneven waterscapes in Sahl al-Battuf

Dajani

2020

Contemporary Levant

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This paper provides an overview of settler-colonial imaginaries of water and how they have cast the area of Sahl al-Battuf as the imagined site of a reservoir and a critical junction for the realisation of the Israeli National Water Carrier. Focusing on the events surrounding the construction of this project, I show how Palestinians inside Israel, at that time living under Israeli military rule, engaged with the state to protest and negotiate their claims over land and water. The findings reveal how settler-colonial imaginaries produce uneven waterscapes and have an enduring impact on Palestinian environmental imaginaries. Narrating and analysing water histories from below allows for a better exploration of indigenous opposition and reclamation of their water use and management. Palestinian struggles for water and land reveal how such mobilisation was shaped by the state's relationship with its estranged Palestinian populations in the midst of citizenship claims, and therefore show how such resource struggles were being constituted through water as a vessel for making claims of recognition.

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Thirsty water carriers: the production of uneven waterscapes in Sahl al-Battuf

Dajani

2020

Contemporary Levant

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“…The volume of IBT research overall increased steadily from the early 1990s to 2014, and most especially so in China, the US, Australia, and to a lesser extent Canada, toward the end of that period 30 . Many early works focused on ecological changes resulting from IBTs 22 , 31 – 35 , but researchers have also examined social effects of IBTs through lenses such as political ecology 36 , political economy 37 , and cultural politics 38 , as well as the political and economic drivers of IBTs 39 . As issues of climate change and the sustainability, or otherwise, of human water engineering become ever more pressing, IBT research at every scale is increasing in importance and increasingly focused on the nexus of human population growth, environmental needs for water, and the changing availability of water under accelerating climate change 25 , 26 , 40 – 46 .…”

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Inter-basin surface water transfers database for public water supplies in conterminous United States, 1986–2015

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The manipulation of water resources is a common human solution to water-related problems. Of particular interest because of impacts on both source and destination is the anthropogenic movement of water from one basin to another, or inter-basin transfers (IBTs). In the United States, IBTs occur widely in both wet and dry regions, but IBT data are not collated and served in a coordinated way. Thus researchers wishing to account for transfers between basins have faced difficulty in doing so. Here we present the outcome of a systematic investigation into inter-basin surface water transfers connected with public water supplies in the conterminous United States (CONUS), 1986 to 2015. The present open-access geodatabase includes transfer volumes collected, evaluated, and compiled from disparate sources. We provide an updated snapshot of CONUS IBTs at a higher spatial resolution of points of withdrawal and delivery than previous datasets. This paper puts the national inter-basin transfer data in context, and shows how we acquired, structured, and validated the locations and volumes of surface water transfers in public water systems.

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“…Water allocation regimes are strongly conditioned by historical rights of access and usage patterns (OECD, ) that did not recognize or respect Indigenous water rights, and these institutionalized patterns have proved difficult to change. Allocation regimes in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, for example, excluded Indigenous peoples and prioritized the interests and water needs of “settler” communities (Berry et al, ; Tarlock, ). Outstanding and newly articulated water rights claims from Indigenous peoples therefore present a clear equity challenge to today's water allocation systems (see Bark et al, ; Budd, ; Trawick, ; Womble et al, ).…”

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Public Attitudes to Inequality in Water Distribution: Insights From Preferences for Water Reallocation From Irrigators to Aboriginal Australians

Jackson

MacDonald

Bark

2019

Water Resources Research

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Water allocation regimes that adjudicate between competing uses are in many countries under pressure to adapt to increasing demands, climate‐driven shortages, expectations for equity of access, and societal changes in values and priorities. International authorities expound standards for national allocation regimes that include robust processes for addressing the needs of “new entrants” and for varying existing entitlements within sustainable limits. The claims of Indigenous peoples to water represents a newly recognized set of rights and interests that will test the ability of allocation regimes to address the global water governance goal of equity. No study has sought to identify public attitudes or willingness to pay for a fairer allocation of water rights between Indigenous and non‐Indigenous people. We surveyed households from the jurisdictions of Australia's Murray‐Darling Basin, a region undergoing a historic government‐led recovery of water, and found that 69.2% of respondents support the principle of reallocating a small amount of water from irrigators to Aboriginal people via the water market. Using contingent valuation, we estimated households are willing to pay A$21.78 in a one‐off levy. The aggregate value calculated for households in the basin's jurisdictions was A$74.5 million, which is almost double a recent government commitment to fund the acquisition of entitlements for Aboriginal nations of this basin. Results varied by state of residency and affinity with environmental groups. An information treatment that presented narrative accounts from Aboriginal people influenced the results. Insights from this study can inform water reallocation processes.

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Indigenous water histories II: water histories and the cultural politics of water for contemporary Indigenous groups

Cited by 9 publications

References 15 publications

Thirsty water carriers: the production of uneven waterscapes in Sahl al-Battuf

Thirsty water carriers: the production of uneven waterscapes in Sahl al-Battuf

Inter-basin surface water transfers database for public water supplies in conterminous United States, 1986–2015

Public Attitudes to Inequality in Water Distribution: Insights From Preferences for Water Reallocation From Irrigators to Aboriginal Australians

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