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Water Governance in Bolivia - Cochabamba since the Water War (Hardcover)
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Water Governance in Bolivia - Cochabamba since the Water War (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability
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This book examines water remunicipalization in Cochabamba since the
Water War, offering innovative methodological and theoretical
conceptualizations of what it means to be "public," helping to move
debates on water services beyond the paralyzing binary of public
versus private with a focus on the contested terrain of community
engagement around water services. The Cochabamba Water War of 2000
brought together city residents of all stripes to mobilize against
water privatization and gain back public control of the city's
water utility. This event catapulted anti-privatization movements
around the world, but two decades later, the water movement's
vision of democratic water provision remains largely unfulfilled
and the city suffers from a protracted water crisis. Building a
typology of participation, this book explores the difficulty in
rebuilding a strong public water service in Cochabamba by analyzing
the different, and often incompatible, understandings and
interpretations of social control and public participation.
Applying this framework to the Bolivian context, and more
specifically to the water and sanitation sector in Cochabamba, the
book uncovers whose interests are served, and which groups are
included or excluded from decision-making and access to water. This
exercise illustrates how, in their implementation, participatory
practices are not linear and can be distorted or appropriated
towards different ends. This book will be of great interest to
students and scholars of water governance, natural resource
management, public policy, social movements and Latin American
studies.
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