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Cochabamba From Water War to Water Management

Type: 
Journal Article
Author(s): 
Raúl Zibechi
Publication Date: 
2009

Through the water war of April, 2000, the poor of the city and countryside of Cochabamba succeeded in expelling the multinational corporation which tried to charge them for this most basic common good. Between 2003 and 2005, the poor of the entire country drove out the neoliberal model of water management. Now it is community management of water that is the unresolved challenge.