The purpose of this study is to examine the social factors which affect the water management decision making of Punjabi farmers in a sample of fifteen Pakistani villages. In essence the study design is as follows: The focus of inquiry is on three dependent variables -- (1) decisions of farmers to clean watercourses; (2) decisions to change from kacha to pacca warabandi systems of water allocation; and (3) decision to interact with lower level irrigation department employees. The major independent variable, taken for explanatory purposes, is that of presence/absence of public tube wells to augment the supply of water to watercourses. A second category of independent variables, treated as intervening variables because they are viewed as conditioning the impact of the independent variable on the three dependent variables, are social organizational factors of villages such as: (1) number of agricultural castes; (2) presence or absence of factions; (3) land tenancy type; and (4) residence pattern--local vs. refugees.