ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the continuum of events illustrating the multidomain properties of water rights and water control in peasant communities. Many communities' irrigation rituals and beliefs actively produce practices and policies that constitute social reality. The chapter discusses some background of water control and multi-domain interaction in water control. It reviews the Balcompata anecdote in a local cosmological perspective, and analyzes the role of power linking metaphysical and political domains. The chapter highlights water's crucial role. Water is the main element of the Andean cosmos: the principle that explains movement, the essence of life itself. Deities Pachamama, Amaru and Apus are interrelated in the cyclical symbolic process of the cosmos, which involves both cycles: time and human, natural and divine life. The water-control practice travels through Andean hydro-cosmological politics bring back to the interdisciplinarity base camp. Disciplining and dominating water domains and commensurating particular hydrosocial cycles closely connect to politics of truth and legitimate certain water knowledge and practices.
