The neoliberalization of water in Lima, Peru

Ioris, Antônio Augusto Rossotto

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2012.03.001

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“…Case studies have been conducted from a political ecology perspective for example in Lima (Ioris 2012) or Mumbai (Anand 2011). Ioris (2012) claims that water scarcity is artificially created and preserved by political elites using neoliberal water governance reforms, with the intention to perpetuate social inequality. In the case of Mumbai, its municipal water corporation has been allegedly systematically discriminating against Muslim settlers by providing only unreliable water supply to their settlements.…”

Section: Water Governance As a Normative And Analytical Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Value Base of Water Governance: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective

Schulz

Martín-Ortega

Glenk

et al. 2017

Ecological Economics

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Some scholars promote water governance as a normative concept to improve water resources management globally, while others conceive of it as an analytical term to describe the processes, systems and institutions around the management of water resources and water supply. Critics often highlight how specific water governance scenarios fail to deliver socially desirable outcomes, such as social justice or environmental sustainability. While water governance is often perceived as a technical matter, its conceptual and practical components are in fact based on multiple values that, nonetheless, often remain implicit. The present paper seeks to uncover this value base and discusses existing research on values from multiple perspectives, using material from economics, philosophy, psychology, and other social sciences. In different disciplines, values can be understood as fundamental guiding principles, governance-related values or as values assigned to water resources. Together, they shape complex relationships with water governance, which from an analytical perspective is understood as a combination of policy, politics, and polity. Introducing a new conceptual framework, this study seeks to provide a theoretical foundation for empirical research on water governance processes and conflicts.

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Section: Water Governance As a Normative And Analytical Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Value Base of Water Governance: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective

Schulz

Martín-Ortega

Glenk

et al. 2017

Ecological Economics

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“…In Lima, Peru, for instance, citizens resisted attempts by the water utility to closely monitor household water usage by stealing and vandalising water meters with much greater frequency. For example, whereas 32 256 meters were stolen or vandalised in 2000, this number increased to 85 176 by 2007 (see Ioris 2012 ;Herrera and Post 2014 ). In a number of South African cities, activists protested the installation of water meters, leading to arrests and criminal charges (see Conca 2006 ;Harvey 2005 ).…”

Section: Challenges Of Managing Water Using Free-market Approachesmentioning

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Free-Market Economics and Developmental Statism as Political Paradigms: Implications for Water Governance Theory and Practice in Developing Countries

Chikozho

Mapedza²

2016

Freshwater Governance for the 21st Century

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Key actors in various developing countries are often confronted by diffi cult choices when it comes to the selection and deployment of appropriate water governance regimes taking into account national socio-economic and political realities. Indeed, scholars and practitioners alike continue to grapple with the need to create the optimum water-supply and allocation decision-making space applicable to specifi c developing countries. This chapter uses case studies to explore the utility of free-market economics and developmental statism as two major paradigms that have emerged in the face of enduring questions about how best to govern watersupply systems in developing countries. The chapter establishes that increasing pressure on available natural resources may have already rendered obsolete some of the water-supply systems and governance regimes that have served human societies very well for many decades. It is also clear that national water-supply governance paradigms tend to change in tandem with emerging national development theoretical frameworks and priorities. Each nation or local government feels compelled to adopt a particular framework to fulfi l its needs taking into account the broader global water policy context. While many developing countries have adopted water policy prescriptions from the international arena, national and local socio-economic and political realities ultimately determine what works and what does not work on the ground. Local realities have also helped to inform how nation-states domesticate global concepts for their local purposes. Thus, the choice between free-market approaches and developmental state-oriented approaches is never simple, and hybrid models are often deployed. Indeed, the majority of countries and municipalities rely on a mix of market economics and developmental statism to make their water governance regimes more realistic and workable on the ground.

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“…Neoliberal market-oriented reform has been initiated by Fujimori's government and continued since then (Ioris, 2012). The water and sanitation sector in Lima has moved from phases of emergency investments and reorganisation for privatisation (1990e1996), to rehabilitation, additional sourcing and leakage reduction (1996e2000), uncertainty and policy reorientation (2000e2006), and distribution improvement (2007e2009) (Ioris, 2013).…”

Section: The Technico-social Intervention For Water and Sanitation Prmentioning

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“…Technocratic large-scale supply-oriented projects are implemented that do not adapt to the specific characteristics of unplanned settlements (Ioris, 2012). Likewise, social intervention is reduced to information sharing and relying on community leaders as facilitators between engineers and the population.…”

Section: The Technico-social Intervention For Water and Sanitation Prmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Social workers are now hired by construction firms to help them deploy physical infrastructure, without capacity-building anymore. This technical inflexibility, social uniformity and political discourse of promising modern services for all, have since then been criticised, both from operational experts throughout the interviews and by academics (Ioris, 2012).…”

Section: The Technico-social Intervention For Water and Sanitation Prmentioning

confidence: 99%

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