Appendix 3: Interviews Cited and Sample Questions

Sample Interview Questions

-Where does the Oasis get its water?

-Provide some background about Figuig and the water resources system.

-Describe the water distribution system.

-Who developed it?

-Explain the technology applied to the water distribution system today. In the past?

-Who controls the water?

-When was the water system developed?

-How is it managed today? How was it managed in the past?

-What existed prior to this system?

-Who are the major stakeholders?

-Who benefits from the system?

-Who is disadvantaged by the system?

-How is society supported by the system?

-Explain water governance in the community?

-How does the central government support the system, the community?

-Describe the political environment, administration of law, political and social institutions? How do these support the community, the water system?

-Describe the legal system

-Who owns the water? Who has rights to the water?

-Describe the community, the Ksars?

-How were they established, who administers them?

-How have things changed

-How do people subsist, make a living?

-How does the law support the community?

-How is ownership of the water/property documented?

-How is ownership determined/transferred/traded/inherited?

-How do law and Jmaâ support these rights?

-How does Moroccan law support these rights?

-Are there contradictions between the new and traditional system?

-How was the law established?

-How is water priced?

-What is the price of water?

-Explain how water is valued?

-Do people profit from water? If yes, who?

-Does ownership convey power?

-What was the role of the Jmaâ pre/during/post Colonization?

-How have social, legal, political institutions and Figuig as a whole changed since Independence?

-Are there any objections from the people of Figuig to the construction of new wells?

-Are their new technologies being introduced? New systems?

-Who is benefiting from these new systems?

-Is it the system today sustainable?

-What changed in recent years?

-What do you think Figuig will look like in 20 years?
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