Abstract

Summary: The discussion on water management has been so controversial since the shift from traditional water management to modern, integrated management. Known as a community property of mystical and social value, the sale of water has been criticized as ethically unacceptable and morally abnormal by several traditional societies. Moreover, they believe that the perpetuation of water-related cults to regulate access to this resource as well as the evocation of the symbolic functions of water in legendary accounts constitute manifestations of the prevalence of endogenous representations of water 'water. These representations imply free water. Therefore, the sale of water becomes a prohibition. This article is developed within the Studies of Social Sciences to study the moral controversy of the sale of water for the actors involved in Burkina Faso. Thus, this article will mainly use the concept of social construction (SCOT) to see how the social society constructs its vision vis-à-vis water and how these different groups of actors according to their position are constructed in a way they see the water. The interviews were analyzed in the context of detailed historical studies, based on the examination of a large quantity of gray literature. This article argues that water has several meanings and interpretations according to the design of the actors of what is normal / right when it comes to the sale. Such a controversial opinion on the sale of water in Burkina Faso is indeed the subject of this document.