Disputed water: Competing knowledge and power asymmetries in the Yali Alto basin, Chile

Groundwater Management Lessons from Chile

“…Actors had very different views on water resources and their use but lacked a forum for discussion. This is a recurrent problem in Chile for issues relating to groundwater (Rinaudo and Donoso, 2018;Usón et al, 2017) and surface water (Palomino-Schalscha et al, 2016).…”

“…Several were driven by an ulterior motive and not by groundwater management itself. Usón et al (2017) describe a case where key economic actors were in favour of restricting groundwater use. Although the groundwater level drawdown of the PdT Aquifer was limited, the main mining company in the PdT area supported 544 a restriction.…”

CORONA High-Resolution Satellite and Aerial Imagery for Change Detection Assessment of Natural Hazard Risk and Urban Growth in El Alto/La Paz in Bolivia, Santiago de Chile, Yungay in Peru, Qazvin in Iran, and Mount St. Helens in the USA

“…However, urban sprawl is also of special interest, within urban areas but also at the borders, when it leads to different types of settlements with different infrastructure supply quality. For example, areas in the North of Santiago de Chile differentiating into more wealthy areas with regular tap water infrastructure next to poorer settlements reliant on water trucks [97]. Or comparing areas in the West of Santiago de Chile, which experiences a lot of growth and sprawl and includes more fractions of non-wealthy groups, but where health infrastructure is not keeping pace [98].…”

Smooth flows? Hydrosocial communities, water governance and infrastructural discord in Peru’s southern highlands

“…Irrigation implies taming water, which requires physical infrastructure to transport water from its natural settings to specific production sites. The hydraulic grids this infrastructure forms in the landscape generate what Boelens and others call hydrosocial territories, which are framed by configurations of people, institutions, water flows, technologies and biophysical environments and that constitute an important battleground between social and political actors, not only to control water and other natural resources but also to negotiate and contest values, norms, knowledge and identity (Boelens et al, 2016;Usón et al, 2017). Hydrosocial territories are therefore shaped by both natural-ecological and sociopolitical forces, and their boundaries are demarcated by the hydrosocial networks humans' interaction with water generates (Rocha-Lopez et al, 2019).…”