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14 - Sharing Our Water

Inclusive Development and Glocal Water Justice in the Anthropocene

from Part III - Exclusion and Struggles for Co-Decision

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2018

By
Joyeeta Gupta
Edited by
Rutgerd Boelens ,
Tom Perreault  and
Jeroen Vos
Rutgerd Boelens
Affiliation:
Wageningen Universiteit, The Netherlands
Tom Perreault
Affiliation:
Syracuse University, New York
Jeroen Vos
Affiliation:
Wageningen Universiteit, The Netherlands
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Summary

In the Anthropocene, an inclusive development perspective on water justice has three key implications. First, ecological inclusiveness implies recognizing the local to global limits to the use of water, water flows and their ecosystem services. Second, relational inclusiveness requires acknowledging that such limits must be democratically and discursively defined, and “glocally” governed. Furthermore, since water is closely linked to “growth”, there is a tendency for actors to monopolize control over water through (a) the discourses of liberalization, privatization, technocratization and securitization; and (b) de jure and de facto rules of water ownership and control through permits, infrastructure, finance, land owner-ship and “grabbing”, combined with market principles for water pricing. This can exacerbate water injustices. Hence, a socially inclusive model is required that acknowledges that water ecospace is a glocal public good, that access and allocation of rights, responsibilities and risks should be undertaken in a socially just manner and that accountable collectivities whether communities, states or intergovernmental entities should undertake this activity.
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Water Justice , pp. 259 - 274
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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