Access to water underpins a range of smallholder livelihood strategies. Consequently, it is the intersections of water and land use and access that structure rural livelihoods. Drawing on eighteen months of ethnographic research in the town of Sussundenga in central Mozambique, this article examines how residents differentiated by class and gender negotiate access to water under a fragmented water regime. Increasing competition for commercially valuable wetlands and stream‐bank plots is creating new exclusions from these sites that have long been central to subsistence production. While the commercialization of the town's rural water supply network also has the potential to exclude residents who are unable to pay new water users' fees, residents have been less willing to exclude poorer households from using the new infrastructure. Exploring how the commercialization of some water use produces exclusions while other forms do not, this article suggests that water's meanings and values change as it moves across the hydrosocial landscape.

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莫桑比克中部谈判获得水的机会：对农村生计的影响

获得水是一系列小农生计战略的基础。因此，构成农村生计的是水和土地利用与获取的交叉点。本文利用莫桑比克中部Sussundenga镇18个月的人种学研究成果，研究了在支离破碎的水权制度下，按阶级和性别区分的居民如何协商获得水的途径。对具有商业价值的湿地和河岸地块的竞争日益激烈，这些地方长期以来一直是自给自足生产的核心，因此又产生了新的排斥。虽然该镇农村供水网络的商业化也有可能将无法支付新水费的居民排除在外，但居民却不愿将较贫困的家庭排除在新基础设施之外。