Ra Ximhai (May 2010)
THE WATER MANAGEMENT COUNCIL: A SEARCH FOR A MODEL OF ADMINISTRATION AND OPERATION OF AN IRRIGATION SYSTEM
Abstract
The present research shows the ability that posses theusers organization to manage and operate successfully theirrigation systems during certain periods. In the specificcase of the water management council, the MexicanGovernment promotes them and makes them in from1920 to 1940, mainly, to receive an Irrigation NationalDistricts that from now had been built by NationalIrrigation Council (CNI). The entrance of the NationalDistricts of Irrigation implied that the water managementcouncil was responsible of the management, maintainingand the operation of the irrigation systems. Thedocumental and empiric evidences suggest that the watermanagement council were successful, keeping inoperation the irrigation systems till this moment. Thesuccessful of water management council, nevertheless,has not been free of conflicts. Those conflicts andlimitations that have been manage by the development ofmechanisms of conflict treatments achieved over time. Itis therefore, the particular experience of every watermanagement council an example of management and operation of irrigation systems. In the research we madeto try to rescue and systematize the experience achievedby the water management councils and from the analyzeof regularities develop a model of management andoperation of irrigation systems.
