Abstract
At present and in many countries, efforts are being made to increase the control of water. To this end, administrations can simply choose to formalize locally-produced rules ("customary law") by putting them in writing. However, in many cases this process of writing is not so easy. Such is the case in the Aït Bou Guemez Valley (Morocco): in this oral tradition society, the writing of local water rules is faced with an extremely complex set of rules and practices. Some are explicit while others are not. Local water management requires a set of diversified rules, principles and customs. The overall coherence and efficiency of this "set of rules" is based on the way it is implemented by people in situ. The analysis of the Aït Bou Guemez case allows us to make recommendations about the writing of these sets of rules. The aim of this paper is to suggest a way of formalizing local rules with respect to the coherence of local water management practices.
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