De la chose commune au patrimoine commun.. Regards croisés sur les valeurs sociales de l'accès à l'eau

This article wants to confront a theoretical legal approach concerning the access to water and the status of the resource which ensues from it with an anthropological approach centred on the water perceptions and their effects on the daily practices. With these confrontations, we could find a vision of water which we can compare with the French notion of ?Patrimoine? which could be found by the combination of terms heritage, common and trust. This conduct on one hand to show the social values set when we talk about water and its access and, on the other hand, those who are really protected today by law.