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Secondly, Pok and Pang Jum Pee Villages were accessible and I was familiar with the leaders of both villages, especially Pang Jum Pee Village. In 2004, Pok and Pang Jum Pee villages cooperated to revive and conserve the Mae Lai Noi stream through a research project supported by the Thailand Research Fund (TRF), Community-Based Research Division. At that time, I was the program officer at TRF and had the responsibility of monitoring the research project in these villages. The background stories of these villages was thus understood and experienced through conversation having been conducted with village leaders, visits to Pang Jum Pee village, and participation in village acitivities as well as regional and national conferences.15The familiarity made it easier for me to enter Pok and Pang Jum Pee villages for data collection in being consistent with the methodology of constructivist grounded theory. Understanding background stories, experiences, and events also helped create suitable questions in the research process to explore the feelings and reaction of the villagers to water and place which encouraged data quality and descriptions to construct conceptual frameworks. Such familiar is closely relevant to the principle of grounded theory, which states that, in order for a conceptual framework to be developed, data must be derived from the perspectives of local insiders. In conclusion, Pok and Pang Jum Pee villages appeared suitable areas for fieldwork and provided a unique opportunity for this type of study. They offered various stories for further investigating the relationship between villagers, stream, and villages: traditional societies, local knowledge, water conservation, and importance of water in the Mae Lai Noi stream. The conduct of this study had a practical dimension since I understood the background information about these villages, and was familiar and trusted by the village leaders.
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