Abstract
As water turns scarce and pressure for transforming it into a market commodity increases, Sarah T. Romano shows that there are other options based on communal property, local knowledge and legitimate grassroots empowerment. By delineating the path followed by the CAPS (Comités de Agua Potable y Saneamiento / Potable Water and Sanitation Committee/s), community-based water management regimes in Nicaragua, this book presents us with powerful lessons from rural water governance that could be a model for social and environmental justice in the water sector.