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Chapter  7:  Case  studies  in  Sana’a  basin     7.3.3    B:  Conflict  description  and  stakeholder  analysis   At  the  beginning  of  2014,  farmers  from  Jalal  village  started  to  dig  four  shallow  wells  at  the  upper  location  of   “Ghail   Mahiab”   in   order   to   draw   water   for   drinking   and   irrigation.   The   higher   well   had   a   depth   of   12m,   the   second   7-­‐8m   depth,   the   third   was   3m   deep   and   the   drilling   of   the   fourth   well   which   was   the   lowest   and   closer   to  the  Gail  spring  -­‐  was  halted  by  the  users  of  the  Gail  and  closed.  The  upstream  users  were  entitled  to  use  the   water  of  the  ghail  for  domestic  purposes  and  to  provide  water  for  their  animals.  According  to  the  downstream   villagers,  these  acts  caused  some  spring  sources  of  Gail  Mahiab  (which  consists  of  more  than  on  natural  spring)   to  stop  pro GV6