ABSTRACT
This chapter will scrutinize parallels by examining, through the Licto system, water-governance techniques, technology embedded scripts and institutionalizing unquestioned water rights black-boxes. Licto District, Chimborazo Province, highlands Ecuador, encompasses 28 indigenous communities and is the main town's name. Next the water-control analysis, rather than focusing on the existence/ feasibility of panoptic irrigation overseers, it is crucial to understand the normalizing effects of modern water-control discourses and models. The moralization of water-control technologyGovernment is the right disposition of things, what government has to do with is not territory but rather a sort of complex composed of men and things. As in the Panopticon, the latest policy-makers dream scheme is self-governing, autonomous local irrigation systems obviously, in compliance with national or international policy objectives: autonomy as the ultimate objective of disciplinary control. It also is analyzed as an illusion that, when believed and when behavior is guided by it, has strong effect and power in practice.
