Abstract
This paper summarizes research issues and approaches contained in eight papers presented at the Conference on Resources, and Sustainability, held in fall 2002 in Athens, Georgia. These papers were part of sessions devoted to Water, Agriculture, and the Environment, one of five working groups at the conference. The papers addressed issues including: contested uses of water and watercourses, water for agriculture, management of watersheds, and allocation of water rights. Cultural understandings of water was foregrounded in all of the papers. In this paper, the contributions are considered in a broader global context and implications for policy determinations are explored. The role of anthropology and anthropologists in delineating problems concerned with water and human use is elaborated. The working group papers constitute a contribution to growing dialogue on the importance of anthropological input to the formation of policy in diverse decision-making arenas.
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