TY - BOOK ID - 134764384 TI - Social capital and local water management in Egypt PY - 2016 SN - 1617978140 1617977640 9781617977640 9781617978142 1617977632 9781617977633 9774167635 9789774167638 PB - Cairo New York DB - UniCat KW - Water resources development KW - Social capital (Sociology) KW - History. KW - Social aspects KW - Egypt. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134764384 AB - From the 1980s onward, billions of dollars were poured into irrigation improvement programs in Egypt. These aimed at improving local Nile water management through the introduction of more water-efficient technology and by placing management of the improved systems in the hands of local water user associations. The central premise of most of these programs was that the functioning of such associations could rely on the revival of traditional forms of social capital - social networks, norms, and trust - for their success. Gouda shows how the far-reaching social changes wrought at the village level in Egypt through the 20th century rendered such a premise implausible at best and invalid at worst. ER -