(Facultad de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, 2008-08) Bustos, Rosa María; Saldi, Leticia; de Rosas, Laura
The watery resources management is run
by the General Irrigation Department in
Mendoza. Since 1994 this Department has
driven a policy of democratic management
for the distribution of the watering resources,
through annual assemblies. Though
these assemblies don’t congregate enough
people, there are informal social networks
that assures everybody the irrigation resources
needed. However this distribution is not
equitable. At least two types of social networks
have been found: one of them has a
higher level of influence for decision making.
The other one is limited to solve watering
problems at a very low level –which
could jeopardise their access to the resourceand
is compounded by less social, economic
and cultural capital agents.