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18 Willamette J. Int'l L. & Dis. Res. 185 (2010)
Customary Practice and Community Governance in Implementing the Human Right to Water - The Case of the Acequia Communities of Colorado's Rio Culebra Watershed

handle is hein.journals/wildisres18 and id is 203 raw text is: CUSTOMARY PRACTICE AND COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE IN IMPLEMENTING THE HUMAN RIGHT TO WATER - THE CASE OF THE ACEQUIA COMMUNITIES OF COLORADO'S RIO CULEBRA WATERSHED GREGORY A. HICKS1 & DEVON G. PENA2 I. Introd uction ................................................................................................. 18 5 II. Character of the Culebra W atershed ........................................................... 188 11 . H istory of the Culebra Acequias ............................................................... 190 A . Settlem ent and O rganization .................................................................. 190 B. Im pact of Prior Appropriation ................................................................ 192 IV. Contemporary Water and Watershed Conflicts and the Acequias ............ 193 V . The A cequia Recognition A ct .................................................................... 196 VI. The Human Rights Framework and its Significance ................................ 198 V II. T he R oad A head ...................................................................................... 20 1 A. A Summary of Challenges to Recovery of Acequia Autonomy ............ 201 B. Next Steps in Reviving Acequia Watershed Governance ....................... 204 V III. C onclusion ............................................................................................. 20 6 IX . A ppendix ................................................................................................... 20 8 I. INTRODUCTION An important aspect of the implementation of the human right to water in the West is recognition and protection of the right of peoples to define themselves and their cultures through their relationship to water and its management. The idea of water as a carrier of culture and as essential to identity may be especially important for communities of smallholder irrigators where water is both an essential economic resource and the basis for much of community life. These communities define themselves and their relation to place through their participation in the social and institutional arrangements on which irrigation management depends. Water management and watershed governance become 1. Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, Washington. 2. Professor of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies, University of Washington, Seattle.

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