Transformations to groundwater sustainability: from individuals and pumps to communities and aquifers
Margreet Zwarteveen
(1)
,
Marcel Kuper
(2, 3)
,
Cristian Olmos-Herrera
(1)
,
Muna Dajani
(4)
,
Jeltsje Kemerink-Seyoum
(5)
,
Cleaver Frances
(4)
,
Linnea Beckett
(6)
,
Flora Lu
(6)
,
Seema Kulkarni
,
Himanshu Kulkarni
,
Uma Aslekar
,
Lowe Börjeson
(7)
,
Andres Verzijl
(1)
,
Carolina Dominguez Guzmán
(1)
,
Maria Teresa Oré
(8)
,
Irene Leonardelli
(5)
,
Lisa Bossenbroek
(9)
,
Hind Ftouhi
(10)
,
Tavengwa Chitata
(11)
,
Tarik Hartani
(12)
,
Amine Saidani
(13)
,
Michelaina Johnson
(14)
,
Aysha Peterson
(14)
,
Sneha Bhat
,
Sachin Bhopal
,
Zakaria Kadiri
(10)
,
Rucha Deshmukh
,
Dhaval Joshi
(15)
,
Hans Komakech
(16)
,
Kerstin Joseph
(16)
,
Ebrania Mlimbila
(16)
,
Chris de Bont
(7)
1
UvA -
University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] = Universiteit van Amsterdam
2 UMR G-EAU - Gestion de l'Eau, Acteurs, Usages
3 Cirad-ES - Département Environnements et Sociétés
4 Lancaster Environment Centre
5 IHE Delft - Institute for Water Education
6 UC Santa Cruz - University of California [Santa Cruz]
7 Stockholm University
8 PUCPR - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná [Curitiba, Brasil] = Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná [Curitiba, Brazil] = Université catholique pontificale du Paraná [Curitiba, Brésil]
9 University of Koblenz-Landau
10 University Hassan II [Casablanca]
11 University of Sheffield [Sheffield]
12 CENTRE UNIVERSITAIRE DE TIPAZA DZA
13 CREAD - Centre de recherches en économie appliquée au développement
14 UC - University of California
15 Edin. - University of Edinburgh
16 NM-AIST - Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology [Arusha]
2 UMR G-EAU - Gestion de l'Eau, Acteurs, Usages
3 Cirad-ES - Département Environnements et Sociétés
4 Lancaster Environment Centre
5 IHE Delft - Institute for Water Education
6 UC Santa Cruz - University of California [Santa Cruz]
7 Stockholm University
8 PUCPR - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná [Curitiba, Brasil] = Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná [Curitiba, Brazil] = Université catholique pontificale du Paraná [Curitiba, Brésil]
9 University of Koblenz-Landau
10 University Hassan II [Casablanca]
11 University of Sheffield [Sheffield]
12 CENTRE UNIVERSITAIRE DE TIPAZA DZA
13 CREAD - Centre de recherches en économie appliquée au développement
14 UC - University of California
15 Edin. - University of Edinburgh
16 NM-AIST - Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology [Arusha]
Margreet Zwarteveen
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Marcel Kuper
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Seema Kulkarni
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Himanshu Kulkarni
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Uma Aslekar
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Sneha Bhat
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Sachin Bhopal
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Rucha Deshmukh
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Résumé
If the success of agricultural intensification continues to rely on the depletion of aquifers and exploitation of (female) labour, transformations to groundwater sustainability will be impossible to achieve. Hence, the development of new groundwater imaginaries, based on alternative ways of organizing society-water relations is highly important. This paper argues that a comparative documentation of grass-roots initiatives to care for, share or recharge aquifers in places with acute resource pressures provides an important source of inspiration. Using a grounded anti-colonial and feminist approach, we combine an ethnographic documentation of groundwater practices with hydrogeological and engineering insights to enunciate, normatively assess and jointly learn from the knowledges, technologies and institutions that characterize such initiatives. Doing this usefully shifts the focus of planned efforts to regulate and govern groundwater away from government efforts to control individual pumping behaviours, to the identification of possibilities to anchor transformations to sustainability in collective action.
