ABSTRACT
Fresh water is identified as the most crucial and quickly depleting resource on the globe today. Failure to incorporate traditional knowledge about water into the modernization process has been cited as fundamental to this situation (Goodall 2008; Weir et al. 2013). Weir (2009) points this out as a methodological question when water is investigated as an object and an economic resource, as against its cultural interpretive meaning. Weir also considers the ecology/economy dichotomy destructive as these are perceived to be opposites.
