ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the field of water control intimately links community labor, water property creation and identity formation. Coercive and capillary powers, hydro-politics of identity expecting indigenous emancipation through active cross-breeding of the native race. It also examines basic water-control issue: historical development of the collective community labor mechanism, the mita, for hydraulic property creation and upkeep. The Inca State was both repressive and redistributive, not a benevolent caretaker but a strategic ruling system to functionally maintain necessary loyalties. Apparently, brutal, exclusionary, and openly visible top-down power manifestations has replaced by subtle, inclusive, and hidden capillary power. The power mechanisms production syst functionalized collective labor parties to dominant classes productive extractive interests, because functionalized collective labor work-parties are key to, creating and re-creating water rights, and potentially disobedient hydraulic identities. The gap between modernity and the distant past is narrower than modern water science often presents, Ancient power never disappeared, modern power elements were already at work in ancient times.
