Abstract
ABSTRACTThe spread of European settlement into the arid regions of the New World during the nineteenth century was accompanied by protracted and contentious debate over the allocation and use of water, interest group competition and conflict, and conflicting pressures for legal change. This paper describes the origins and course of changes in the legal and institutional arrangements governing the distribution and use of water in Central Otago in the context of the transfer of the resource from gold mining to irrigation farming during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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