how do rivers behave like a human being
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There is a growing body of literature, mostly produced in the past decade, responding to the realization that the support of local people—those who most directly experience the effects of river alterations—is necessary if the goals of sustainable water management are to be met (Conallin, Dickens, Hearne, & Allan, 2017 2017; Kabogo et al., 2017; Lave, 2016). Attention within water governance to public participation and more generally to the importance of process coincided with changes in human rights law that have influenced international standards relating to community consent to water resource development. Two high profile international institutions have focused particular attention on the needs of Indigenous peoples who have suffered human rights violations and disproportionate negative impacts of large dams (Carino & Colchester, 2010; Estes, 2017; Robison et al., 2018). Reporting in 2000, the World Commission on Dams helped establish as development best practice the requirement to respect the right of Indigenous peoples to give or withhold their “free, prior and informed consent” to development projects (Carino & Colchester, 2010). Almost a decade later, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) affirmed the rights of Indigenous Peoples to “maintain and strengthen their distinctive spiritual relationship with their traditionally owned or otherwise occupied… waters” (Article 25 cited in Robison et al., 2018, p. 856). The Declaration also imposed obligations on nation states to seek the free, prior and informed consent of Indigenous communities to water resource developments affecting them.