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Resource sharing for dry season crops: a tale of the village pond

The pond you see is actually very deep and normally a person cannot touch the ground.

The pond is fished baromonthly and at any time of the year if you venture into this pond you will find fish as there is water throughout the year due to the deep water and there is no reason for the water to dry up to get enough fish.

And in this pond, lobsters, roe fish, catla fish are abundant.

A village pond could provide the people of Ban Phailom in Laos with the much-needed water for their vegetables during the dry season but resource access is a serious concern. How were they able to sort out the problem?

The valued village pond
Located across the main pathway from Ban Phailom, in close proximity to the 116 households (total population of 669) that make up the village is a unique, large pond. According to the village head, the pond formed naturally, or likely as a result of the ‘bomb cratering effect’ during the Vietnam War, as is often observed in Laos. Due to its shallowness, the pond used to dry up a couple of months after the beginning of the dry season, thus limiting villagers’ water uses to bathing, washing clothes and fishing.

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