Research Catalog

Title

Acequia : water-sharing, sanctity, and place / Sylvia Rodríguez.

Author

Rodríguez, Sylvia, 1947-

Publication

Santa Fe, N.M. : School for Advanced Research Press, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies

Description

xxvi, 187 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 26 cm.

Summary

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, Río 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 defend their water rights against the competing claims brought by population growth, urbanization, and industrial or resort development. Their insistence on the traditional "sharing of waters" offers a solution to the current worldwide water crisis.

Subject

• Human ecology > Taos Region
• Ethnoecology > Taos Region
• Stream ecology > Taos Region
• Water-supply > Taos Region
• Water resources development > Taos Region
• Communication in water resources development > Taos Region
• Taos Pueblo (N.M.) > Environmental conditions
• Taos Region (N.M.) > Environmental conditions

Note

• "A School for Advanced Research resident scholar book."
• "Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, and with the support of the Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Foundation."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-180) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Irrigation in Taos -- Dividing the Río Pueblo -- Dividing the Río Lucero -- Respeto and moral economy -- Honoring San Isidro -- Procession, water, and place -- Water and the future of intercultural relations.

ISBN

• 1930618557 (pa : alk. paper)
• 9781930618558 (pa : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006023875

OCLC

• 70836635
• SCSB-10965339

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library