Annexes
Parties
Upper
stream
village
of
Galal
versus
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.
Applicable
local
traditional
and
customary
law
Traditional
rules
of
‘Urf’
apply,
but
it
is
not
clear
which
rules.
According
to
one
partu
a
technical
feasibility
study
on
future
well
development
was
carried
out
in
the
past,
but
there
is
disagreement
between
the
parties
over
the
existence
of
these
documents.
Finally,
they
use
general
rules
of
Shari’ah
law
for
regarding
drinking
water:
water
is
‘allowed
for
all
human’,
thus
for
human
use
in
general
Formal
law
No
use
of
any
kind
formal
law
could
be
identified,
but
the
parties
know
the
NWRA.
(Judicial)
measures
taken
The
parties
referred
the
conflict
to
mediators,
who
tried
to
solve
the
conflict
through
tribal
customary
rules.
The
issue
was
also
raised
to
the
NWRA
and
it
was
accep