Neither Tragedy Nor Enclosure: Are There Inherent Human Rights in Water Management in Zimbabwe's Communal Lands?

Derman, Bill; Hellum, Anne

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“…Villagers demonstrated a surprising degree of consistency over time and space in upholding the norm that no one can be denied clean drinking water (Derman and Hellum, 2003). The obligation to share drinking water extended to wells, which were privately dug, and on basically private land.…”

Section: The Right To Safe Drinking Watermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Towards this end, we have since 1999 been studying water management in three villages of Bangira, Murombedzi and Kaondera in the chieftainship of Mashamayombe in Mhondoro Communal Land (Derman and Hellum, 2003;Hellum and Derman, 2004). 14 We chose this area due to a rapid and recent increase in tobacco growing, a relatively high number of private wells and the existence of a dam project.…”

Section: Part Iii: Local Practices and Normsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This article does not include in any depth the medium and long-term implications of the current Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLP) underway for the 'right to water' and the 'right to livelihood' (Derman and Hellum, 2003, Hammar et al, 2003, Hellum and Derman, 2004Manzungu, 2004). However, there has been a dramatic increase in the numbers of Zimbabwe's poor, a direct consequence of the FTLP.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…It is expressed in the Romwe Catchment in southern Zimbabwe as 'water is life' (hupenyu) (Nemarundwe, 2003), in Shamva District as 'drinking water should be for everyone' (Matondi, 2001) and in Mhondoro Communal area as 'one can't deny water to anyone' (Derman and Hellum, 2003). The newly enunciated human right to water accords well with the practices and norms within most, if not all, of Zimbabwe's communal and resettlement areas.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…As a communal resource, the management of water is potentially problematic (Derman and Hellum, 2002). The advocates of an institutional approach to communal management point out that over-use and degradation of a shared resource is not inevitable, provided specific features are in place in the management set-up (Ostrom, 1990 Staddon, Appleby and Grant, 2012).…”

Section: Theoretical Arguments In Favour Of Community Based Water Manmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Negotiating access to water in central Mozambique: Implications for rural livelihoods

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2019

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Access to water underpins a range of smallholder livelihood strategies. Consequently, it is the intersections of water and land use and access that structure rural livelihoods. Drawing on eighteen months of ethnographic research in the town of Sussundenga in central Mozambique, this article examines how residents differentiated by class and gender negotiate access to water under a fragmented water regime. Increasing competition for commercially valuable wetlands and stream‐bank plots is creating new exclusions from these sites that have long been central to subsistence production. While the commercialization of the town's rural water supply network also has the potential to exclude residents who are unable to pay new water users' fees, residents have been less willing to exclude poorer households from using the new infrastructure. Exploring how the commercialization of some water use produces exclusions while other forms do not, this article suggests that water's meanings and values change as it moves across the hydrosocial landscape.

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Neither Tragedy Nor Enclosure: Are There Inherent Human Rights in Water Management in Zimbabwe's Communal Lands?

Cited by 15 publications

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Livelihood rights perspective on water reform: Reflections on rural Zimbabwe

Livelihood rights perspective on water reform: Reflections on rural Zimbabwe

Improving the effectiveness of Ugandan water user committees

Negotiating access to water in central Mozambique: Implications for rural livelihoods

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