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- Papers from the
World Water Forum Session on Water and Cultural Diversity (March
2003). The presentations
from this session are currently being compiled for a
UNESCO publication. A few of the papers are
available here, and more will be added as we receive permission
from the authors.
Rutgerd Boelens, Local Rights
and Legal Recognition: The Struggle for Indigenous Water
Rights and the Cultural Politics of
Participation


David Groenfeldt, Water
Development and Spiritual Values in Western and Indigenous
Societies

Water Rights and
Empowerment. A workshop on "Water Rights
and Empowerment" held in March 2002 at Wageningen
University, the Netherlands,
addressed many of the issues that were discussed in the
indigenous sessions of the World Water Forum.

The workshop coincided
with the release of the book, Water Rights and
Empowerment (edited by Rutgerd Boelens and Paul
Hoogendam, 2002), which is available in English or
Spanish.


A curriculum for a
15-week course on indigenous water knowledge has been prepared
by Darlene Sanderson, a Canadian Cree graduate student at Simon
Fraser University. The curriculum provides a systematic
framework for indigenous elders to share their knowledge about
water.

Water
Voices was a program of the Kyoto World Water
Forum, to gather diverse statements and testimonials about water
from people around the world. Ms. Edith Wenger (Germany)
collected brief statements at a Water Congress in South
America. Most of the statements come from representatives
of Indigenous peoples from Brazil, Argentina,
Paraguay.

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