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Water for All

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Water for All chronicles how Bolivians democratized water access, focusing on the Cochabamba region, which is known for acute water scarcity and explosive water protests. Sarah T. Hines examines co...
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Water for All chronicles how Bolivians democratized water access, focusing on the Cochabamba region, which is known for acute water scarcity and explosive water protests. Sarah T. Hines examines conflict and compromises over water from the 1870s to the 2010s, showing how communities of water users increased supply and extended distribution through collective labor and social struggle. Analyzing 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 2000 Water War, a decisive turning point for Bolivian politics. This story offers lessons for contemporary resource management and grassroots movements about how humans can build equitable, democratic, and sustainable resource systems in the Andes, Latin America, and beyond.
 
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Price: $29.95
Pages: 342
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date: 14 December 2021
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520381643
Format: Paperback
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"Water for All beautifully illustrates the relevance and the power of history as a discipline. It should be of interest to historians of Bolivia and anyone else interested in unearthing the long roots of Latin American discontent that still justify much of the political struggle in the region today."
Sarah T. Hines is Assistant Professor of Latin American History at the University of Oklahoma.
Contents

List of Illustrations 
Acknowledgments 
A Note on Terminology 

   Introduction 
1. Water for Those Who Own It: Drought, Dispossession, and
   Modernization in the Liberal Era 
2. Engineering Water Reform: Military Socialism and Hydraulic
   Development 
3. Water for Those Who Use It: Agrarian Reform and Hydraulic
   Revolution 
4. Popular Engineering: Hydraulic Governance and Expertise under
   Dictatorship 
5. The Water Is Ours: Water Privatization and War in Neoliberal Bolivia 
6. After the War: Water and the Making of Plurinational Bolivia 
   Conclusion: Water for All 
   
Appendix: Maximum Holdings under the 1953 Agrarian Reform Decree Law 
Abbreviations 
Notes 
References 
Index