Liminal waters, contested imaginaries: Andean comunas and Ecuador’s new water law

Martina Nebbiai, K. Maria D. Lane and Natali Cáceres-Arteaga

Water International, 2023, vol. 48, issue 7, 883-900

Abstract: This article examines the impacts of Ecuador’s 2014 water law on comunas ancestrales (traditional communal Andean villages), highlighting a disconnect between formal legal frameworks and day-to-day implementation. We focused on the case of Oyacoto, a peri-urban, Indigenous and Mestizo comuna struggling to maintain water management practices and identity while updating critical infrastructure. Using a qualitative approach, we studied the political and gender dimensions of responding to new water policy. Our findings highlight the challenges that small agricultural communities face to preserve community-based water planning within the constraints of centralized national policy.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2023.2286100

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