| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Water for those who own it : drought, dispossession, and privatization, 1877-1935 -- Engineering water reform : military socialism and hydraulic development, 1935-1952 -- Water for those who use it : agrarian reform and hydraulic revolution, 1952-1964 -- Popular engineering : hydraulic governance and expertise under dictatorship, 1964-1985 -- The water is ours : water privatization and war in neoliberal Bolivia, 1985-2000 -- After the Water War : water governance struggles in the making of plurinational Bolivia, 2000-2019 -- Conclusion : water for all -- Appendix : Maximum holdings under the 1953 Agrarian Reform Law |
| Summary |
"Water for All chronicles how Bolivians democratized water access, focusing on the Cochabamba region, the country's third largest city and most important agricultural valley. Covering the period from 1879 to 2019, Sarah T. Hines examines the conflict over control of the region's water sources, showing how communities of water users increased supply and extended distribution through collective labor and social struggle. Through analysis of a wide variety of sources from agrarian reform case records to oral history interviews, Hines investigates how water dispossession in the late nineteenth century and reclaimed water access in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries prompted, shaped, and strengthened popular and indigenous social movements. The struggle for democratic control over water culminated in the successful Water War uprising in 2000, a decisive turning point for Bolivian politics. This story offers lessons in contemporary resource management and grassroots movements for how humans can build equitable, democratic, and sustainable resource systems in the Andes, Latin America, and beyond"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 30, 2021) |
| Subject |
Water-supply -- Bolivia -- Cochabamba -- History
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Social movements -- Bolivia.
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HISTORY / Latin America / South America.
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NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection.
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Social movements
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Water-supply
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Bolivia
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Bolivia -- Cochabamba
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021018750 |
| ISBN |
0520381653 |
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9780520381650 |
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