Water Stewardship / Watershed Collective (LM-Dawn class)

Class card for LM-Dawn federated watershed-stewardship collectives operating shared flow-accounting protocols under co-governance of indigenous-customary law and scientific hydrological monitoring. The class re-couples water-extraction to ecological-flow-budgets and bioregional stewardship at sub-national scale, structurally resistant to commodity-water capture. Operational form: watershed councils, catchment coordinating committees, river-co-governance bodies with indigenous veto rights, and distributed rainwater-harvesting cooperatives. Four sub-families: (1) Indigenous-led river restoration — Maine Wabanaki Reach (Penobscot River Partnership 2012+; dam removal; alewife runs recovering; Penobscot Indian Nation co-management); Yurok Tribe Klamath River (2023 largest US dam removal; Yurok rights-of- river framework; salmon run tracking). (2) Bioregional catchment coordination — Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee Australia (~1200 km² Queensland, 1996+; riparian vegetation restoration; water quality reporting); Rio Grande Watershed Council NM/TX (traditional acequia governance pre-1598+; indigenous + Hispanic + Anglo multi- stakeholder co-governance; 1000+ acequia associations); Whanganui River co-governance New Zealand (2017 Rights-of-the-River Act; Māori co-governance with Crown; "river as ancestor" legal personhood). (3) Urban rainwater cooperatives — Mexico City Iztapalapa rainwater- harvesting cooperatives (~50K household systems, Isla Urbana 2010+; decouples water scarcity from central utility dependency); Chennai rainwater-harvesting mandates + citizen monitoring; Bangalore Whitefield watershed rejuvenation residents' collective. (4) Rights- of-nature governance — Yarra Riverkeeper Melbourne (2017 Rights of Yarra Act; community co-governance board); Sognefjord ecosystem services Norway; Murray-Darling Basin Authority (CAUTIONARY INSTANCE: Australian water-rights buyback failed; commodity-market capture risk documented — DM water-trading rules dominated over ecological flow-budget discipline). Motor is null per LM invariant. Stewardship operates through ecological-flow-budget discipline enforced by shared-data protocols and indigenous-customary co-governance, not through a Progress telos of water-supply maximization. LM mechanism signatures: capture_resistance_index HIGH (indigenous co-governance with veto + rights-of-nature legal instruments structurally resist commodity- capture; Murray-Darling cautionary case shows what capture looks like when these are absent); proletarianization_risk MEDIUM-HIGH (flow accounting + hydrological monitoring + indigenous-knowledge synthesis requires deeply specialized competence unlikely to persist without active institutional cultivation); liveness_temporal_coupling HIGH (water is a real-time seasonal flow; ecological minimum flows must be honoured in real time or ecological damage is irreversible); new_nature_density MEDIUM-HIGH (flow-budget discipline enables riparian restoration, fish-run recovery, wetland return). Primary outputs: ecological-flow-budgets-enforced, fish-runs-monitored, water-quality-tests-completed, indigenous-knowledge-protocols-shared, hectares-riparian-restored. All quantitative state-variable values are [EXTRAP]; framing is [CANON-concept] per Wave-0 LM definitions and Hidalgo adjacency-lift mechanic from freshwater-sanitation- municipal-1840s (MM) + ipcc-climate-science-machine-1988 (DM) + sewers-bazalgette-london-1859 (MM). [STUB-commodity-gap]: ecological-flow-budget-volume (m³/yr restored flow), fish-run-count, water-quality-tests, and indigenous-knowledge-protocols-shared have no Smil-Commodity enum values; these outputs use commodity: null + [STUB] note. [STUB-substrate-enum-gap]: biotic substrate for living waterway ecology not in SubstrateType enum; using animate as closest valid value + note.