Acequia Water-Sharing, Sanctity, and Place

Name: Acequia Water-Sharing, Sanctity, and Place
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ISBN: 9781930618558

ISBN-10: 1930618557

ISBN-13: 9781930618558

Edition: 2006

Authors: Sylvia Rodrï¿½guez

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Every society must have a system for capturing, storing, and distributing water, a system encompassing both technology and a rationale for the division of this finite resource. Today, people around the world face severe and growing water scarcity, and everywhere this vital resource is ceasing to be a right and becoming a commodity. The acequia or irrigation ditch associations of Taos, Ro Arriba, Mora, and other northern New Mexico counties offer an alternative. Few northern New Mexicans farm for a living anymore, but many still gather to clean the ditches each spring and irrigate fields and gardens with the water that runs through them. Increasingly, ditch associations also go to court to…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press/SAR Press
Publication date: 12/30/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.99" wide x 9.97" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English




Introduction



Irrigation in Taos



Dividing the Rio Pueblo



Dividing the Rio Lucero



Respeto and moral economy



Honoring San Isidro



Procession, water, and place



Water and the future of intercultural relations