Chapter
10:
Findings
system.
In
all
the
cases,
women
do
not
have
any
specific
rights
when
it
comes
to
water.
On
the
contrary,
women
have
more
responsibilities.
Women
are
responsible
for
securing
water
for
home
and
drinking
use.
During
droughts
women
need
to
travel
long
distances
to
fetch
water,
sometimes
using
donkeys
and
most
of
the
time
carrying
water
containers
themselves.
Women
also
help
work
and
fertilize
the
land,
remove
grass,
pick
the
crops,
and
clear
the
land.
Farmers
have
very
little
knowledge
of
the
existence
of
official
water
authorities
and
the
Water
Law
that
govern
the
water
use.
Their
concern
is
with
the
diesel
fuel
cost
and
its
availability
in
the
market.
The
price
of
oil
will
likely
become
more
important
for
whoever
receives
the
water.
10.3.2
New
local
powerholders
The
relation
between
the
private
and
the
public
spheres
is
very
complex,
as
many
private
agents
“In
the
past
15-‐20
years,
tribal
leaders
also
hold
public
offices
at
the
same
time.
This
bought
farms
in
valleys.
They
didn’t
complexity
is
exacerbated
by
the
pluriformity
of
comply
with
the
traditional
rules.
They
regulatory
and
legal
institutions
(i.e.,
state,
tribal,
customary,
and
religious).
All
in
all
only
did
it
with
power
and
weapons.
stakeholder
constellations
and
their
power
Our
problems
are
always
with
the
relations
in
Yemen
water
conflicts
are
highly
dynamic.
True
influence
in
developing
the
water
leaders.
Now
we
have
new
heads
that
systems
is
at
the
large
private
irrigation
farmers,
have
no
relations
with
the
tribes.”
who
control
the
lion's
share
of
the
available
Participant
consultation
meeting,
Amman,
2014
water
resources.
The
current
situation
creates
opportunities
for
individual
sheikhs
and
other
powerful
individuals
to
garner
wealth
through
claiming
new
land
and
water
resources
without
being
confronted
by
local
resistance.
Newcomers
are
seen
to
enter
the
areas
under
study
and
start
using,
diverting,
drilling
water
for
multiple
purposes,
which
in
turn
affects
earlier
local
-‐
downstream
-‐
communities.
People
feel
they
are
increasingly
oppressed
by
a
system
of
sheer
corruption
in
which
local
elites,
external
powerful
actors,
and
governmental
officers
are
the
winners
in
the
control
over
water
while
less
powerful
groups
are
left
with
no