Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 563)
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than they can use at one time and end up over watering their
fields, while water from the springs may end up running off
without being used. If any excess water could be stored then
it would be possible to irrigate crops using a more efficient
and sophisticated water management schedule in order to
promote increased crop productivity. Drip irrigation ponds
are ideal for this purpose, yet only 17% of farmers had
access to such storage vessels.
Table 5: Water Storage by Agrarian Class
Water Share- Farming- Cash Smallholder Farming- Total
storage cropper shepherd Tenant landlord
Drip irr
igation
pond 90 - 4 7 4 105
Nothing 285 ra Ser 40 90 8 478
Not asc. 30 4 - 6 ? 42
Total 405 a9 44 103 14 625
III. ECONOMIC OWNERSHIP OF WATER RESOURCES
I have tried to show in this chapter some of the ways in
which water is limited by the whole project of colonisation.
Control over water is juridicially and formally invested in
the Israeli state as the internationally recognised occupying
power. Another aspect of control relates not to colonisation
but to economic class relations. In order to distinguish
formal juridicial control by the state and ownership by
individuals or corporate bodies I will use the term economic
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