Chapter
10:
Findings
10.3
B:
Conflict
description
and
stakeholder
analysis
The
interview
reports
of
the
different
case
studies
in
Sana’a,
Wadi
Seham
and
Ta’izz
provide
a
detailed
view
of
how
ordinary
people
deal
with
the
water
related
conflicts
in
practice.
The
water
conflicts
are
shortly
described
in
the
table
below
(Table
10.1).
A
more
elaborated
summary
is
included
in
Annex
8,
which
gives
a
brief
overview
of
the
conflicts
in
each
case
study,
what
the
applicable
traditional
and
customary
rules
are,
whether
formal
law
plays
any
role,
the
outcome
of
each
case,
and
it
also
states
the
main
problems
as
identified
by
the
interviewees
of
each
case
study.
Table
10.1:
Conflict
descriptions
of
the
individual
case
studies
Case
1
Parties
Conflict
Case
2
Sana’a:
Shakik
Dam
Shakik
village
vs
Tan’im
village
The
conflict
concerns
the
user
rights
of
the
lake
water,
the
amount
and
share
of
each
village
to
the
lake
water,
as
the
land
was
formerly
common
land.
The
people
of
Tan’im
started
using
pumps
to
withdraw
water
from
the
lake,
as
they
claimed
that
the
dam
prevents
the
flood
and
baseflow
from
reaching
their
area.
The
conflict
began
after
warnings
from
the
Shahik
people
were
ignored.
Sana’a:
Arrowdah
Parties
A
new
land
owner
who
established
a
grape
farm
vs
older
land
owners
in
the
town
of
Ber
Julah/
Arrowdah
Conflict
The
grape
farmer
diverted
water
from
a
flood
to
irrigate
his
land,
thereby
violating
traditional
arrangements
regarding
the
use
of
the
flood
according
to
the
Ber
Julah
landowners,
as
they
were
the
older
landowners.
Case
3
Sana’a:
Bani
Matar
Parties
Upper
stream
village
of
Galal
vs
lower
stream
villages
(Al
Kharabat,
Mahiab,
Bait
Awad
and
Bait
Habes)
Conflict
The
Galal
village
dug
wells
for
drinking
water
at
the
upper
location
of
the
Ghail
Mahiab
stream.
The
lower
stream
villages
claim
that
the
digging
of
these
wells
was
the
main
reason
that
some
of
their
wells
stopped
producing
water,
thus
loosing
their
main
water
source
for
drinking
and
irrigation.
Case
4
Wadi
Seham:
Al
Dabashia
canal
Parties
Person
81
and
others
versus
Tehama
development
Authority
(TDA)
and
downstream