Towards a New Paradigm in Water Management: Cochabamba’s Water Agenda from an Ethical Approach
| Autor: | Rocío Bustamante, Francesc Bellaubi |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Government
Civil society Resource (biology) Service delivery framework media_common.quotation_subject 0207 environmental engineering Integrated water resources management 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Public administration 01 natural sciences Water scarcity Political science Service (economics) General Earth and Planetary Sciences 020701 environmental engineering Commons water management water paradigm water governability water conflicts Cochabamba 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common |
| Zdroj: | Geosciences; Volume 8; Issue 5; Pages: 177 |
| ISSN: | 2076-3263 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/geosciences8050177 |
| Popis: | The Cochabamba Water War (2000) is well renowned for being a part of the civil society versus water service delivery debate. From a situation of service privatization, limited access, and an inexistent institutional framework in 2000, the current situation in the Cochabamba Valley faces increasing water scarcity within a weak institutional set up. To alleviate the situation, the government of Evo Morales has been actively funding projects considering an Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) but confronting customary water rights in rural communities and thus increasing the level of conflict between water uses. Amid these two water management practices appears the Agenda del Agua Cochabamba (AdA)—the Cochabamba Water Agenda—claiming water as part of the commons and not a resource. This paper explains the paradigm’s values behind the conflicting IWRM and water rights’ water management practices and analyses the AdA under a governability framework identifying the barriers and drivers for its implementation. |
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