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How can the management of water
support the cultural and spiritual ways of life that indigenous
peoples choose to lead? Answers can be found by observing the
way indigenous communities are managing their water resources today
(e.g., in locally build and managed irrigation systems), and
listening to their voices about the nature of water, and how
water management can conform
to nature.
Resources
An international seminar
on Farmer Managed
Irrigation Systems and Governance
Alternatives was held in Nepal in September 2004  (Word file, 36
KB)
Paper on
Indigenous Irrigation and Sustainable Development
in Asia, by David
Groenfeldt. The paper reports on indigenous irrigations
systems in Sri Lanka and Pakistan and efforts to improve their
productivity, while respecting local management traditions.
Paper on
Irrigation Development and Indigenous Peoples,
by David
Groenfeldt, outlines ways in which
irrigation development can support indigenous values and traditional
lifestyles. 
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