Water Rights

• From: Department for International Development
• Published: 1 January 2003

• Country: Tanzania
• Document Type: Briefing
• Theme: Water and Sanitation
• Authors: Sokile, C., van Koppen, B.

Abstract

Water rights are any mechanism through which a user can access water for a particular use without jeopardizing another users’ right. Water rights can be local or customary; meaning that a way through which users get access to their water and solve their allocation mechanism among themselves without necessarily having a written document to define volumes and time for abstraction. Water rights are however, mostly thought to be statutory where it refers to a blueprint document defining volumetric allocation of water and sometimes, period for that particular allocation and whom it is provided for.

Citation

Factsheet for RIPARWIN Project, DFID-KAR Project No. R8064, Soil-Water Management Research Group, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania, pp 4

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Water Rights

Published 1 January 2003