Gestión comunitaria del agua: junta administradora de agua potable regional de Zhidma

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the communitary water management in the Regional Potable Water Board of Zhidmad. The guide questions used to accomplish this project are the following: ¿What is the community cosmovision about the water? ¿How the community water board organizes to manage this natural resource? ¿How does the community participate in the mentioned management? Furthermore, based on theory of the commons goods, aboard the communitary water management, understanding it as a human right. The primary conclusions obtained are the maintenance of the millenary tradition called minga as communitary participation for the water management, as well as the community commitment to protect the fountains that grant access to the vital liquid.