#102: Petorca and La Ligua basins - in the communes of La Ligua, Cabildo, and Petorca

The province of Petorca has been facing an ongoing water scarcity causing problems of distribution and welfare. This has led to a conflict between citizens, small- and large-scale farmers, and water providers. Besides climate change, the expansion of large-scale agriculture of avocado and citruses as well as a lack of regulative power and compliance assurance challenge

Water management refers to the activities of analysing and monitoring water resources, as well as developing and implementing measures to keep the state of a water resource within what has been negotiated as desirable bounds (Pahl-Wostl, 2015).

Pahl-Wostl, C. (2015). Water Governance in the Face of Global Change—From Understanding to Transformation. Wiesbaden: Springer International Publishing.

. Besides the traditional water users’ organizations for agricultural water and potable water, coordinating approaches in Petorca are voluntary water round tables, governmental programs to advise small-scale farmers on less-water intensive farming strategies, and the establishment of a monitoring system build by the users at river basin scale (Junta de Vigilancia). Nevertheless, most of those coordination approaches show low participation by the actors.