Abstract:In Colombia there are thousands of community aqueducts that supply water to remote rural communities and peripheral urban settlements. These community aqueducts have united in a National Network to fight for legal recognition and support, since Colombia’s neoliberal policies don’t acknowledge their communitarian nature and have imposed legal requirements that push them towards privatization. Departing from a Latin American political ecology perspective, the paper discusses how this struggle is part of a broade… Show more
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