Subject(s): Water Right and farmers -- Irrigation system -- Negotiating water rights: Legal pluralism, Reconstructing water rights, Governing common property, Reforming irrigation institutions -- Water rights in the state of nature- emergent expectations in an Indonesian settlement -- Balinese transmigrants in the Dunoga valley, Staking claims, Justifying theory, Equity -- Gendered water and land rights in rice valley improvement in Burkina Faso : Local socio-legal organization of production, Project identification and formulation, Household-based allocation, Producer-based allocation -- Negotiating seasonal water allocation rules in Kirindi Oya Sri Lanka : Kirindi Oya irrigation system, Negotiation and conflict over water allocation -- Negotiation with an under informed bureaucracy water rights on system tanks in Bihar -- Water rights and legal pluralism: some basics of a legal anthropological approach -- Negotiating access and rights : disputes over rights to an irrigation water source in Nepal - drinking water source dispute -- Water property rights and resistance to demand management in north western Spain -- Publi, private and shared water -groundwater markets and access in Pakistan : Irrigation and water rights, Water market operation, Joint tubewells as alternatives to water market -- nature's bounty or scarce commodity: competition and consensus over ground water use in Rural Bangladesh : Groundwater polices and regulations -- Farmers, factories and the dynamics of water allocation in west Java -- Negotiation of water allocation among irrigators associations in Bali, Indonesia : Water allocation and distribution, Negotiation among subaks sharing a common intake, Water borrowing, Planting schedules -- Acequias and water rights adjudications in Northern New Mexico -- Negotiating water rights : implications for research and action