title: Water Management: Sacrificing Normative Practice Subverting the Traditions of Water Apportionment-'Whose Justice? Which Rationality?'.
abstract: Since current water governance patterns mandate cooperation and partnership within and between the actors in the hydrosystems, supplementary models are necessary to distinguish the roles and the rules of indoor actions which is why we extend a theory in the frameworks of philosophy of technology. This analysis is empirically grounded on the problematic hydrosystems of a river in central Iran, Zayandehrud. Following a modernist-holistic-based analysis, it illustrates how values in the water apportionment mechanisms are being reshaped. The article by using the theory of normative practice has scrutinised the tasks and the rules of the old and new water-management systems, Mirab. Subsequently according to such philosophical theory, it has argued that the conflicts over the cases are due to interference of structural and directional norms within them.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. m.fasihiharandi@tudelft.nl.
authors.forename: Mehdi F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Harandi
authors.affiliation: Department of Science Education and Communication, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Mahdi G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Nia
authors.affiliation: Department of Values, Technology and Innovation, Section of Ethics/Philosophy of Technology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Marc J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: de Vries
mesh_terms: D003469:Culture; D006801:Humans; D062070:Hydrology; D007492:Iran; D010684:Philosophy; D045483:Rivers; D012935:Social Justice; D012945:Social Values; D013672:Technology / Q000941:ethics*; D014867:Water
chemical_list: D014867:Water
keywords: Holistic thinking; Mirab; Modernism; Normative practice; Technological development; Water management