“Hay que conservar los manantiales”: Organización social del regadío y aguas subterráneas en el noroeste murciano

Title“Hay que conservar los manantiales”: Organización social del regadío y aguas subterráneas en el noroeste murciano
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2008
AuthorsPedreño A, Pérez I
JournalRevista Española de Estudios Agrosociales y Pesqueros
Volume220
Pagination123-159
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The irrigation system of the northwest Murcia Region (Spain): robustness of SES to the intrusion of new resource users

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Farmers in the northwest Murcia Region (Spain) have used for centuries the water from springs to irrigate their lands. They are organized in irrigation communities adapted to cope with rainfall variability. This system was robust in terms of its use of the water emerging from the springs to irrigate small patches of land. In recent decades, large agrarian companies have settled in this region and use groundwater to irrigate new lands. This intrusion had led the levels of this resource to drop...
09 Aug 2016