</titre> This paper concerns the managing changes of village?s water supply in Benin in the context of the political decentralization. The discussion is about the stakes, arrangements and tenseness of the transformation from a community-based to a delegated management through the trajectory of a village...

</titre> This paper suggests analyzing an agro-pastoral dam management recently built in the north-center of Benin. It shows the failure to water livestock that revealing split between the sedentary having the territory rights and the Fulani?s breeders who have only secondary rights on the land and on...

</titre> <alinea/> This paper proposes to highlight the diversity of water resources in a sahelian community with the help of social and environmental indicators. This diversity is based on the coexistence of endogenous resources and exogenous resources. All of these resources are essential to satisfy population...