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Andean Group - October 2018
Bolivia’s water wars: twenty years on, what has changed?
Access to water has long been an explosive issue in Bolivia where in early 2000 conflict arose in Cochabamba, Bolivia’s third-largest city, over the privatisation of an ever-dwindling water supply, something permitted by legislation introduced the previous year. Such was the unrest that the government was eventually forced to back down. While access to water was a right guaranteed under the new 2009 constitution passed under the government led by President Evo Morales, we consider how, nearly two decades on, the issue continues to pose various challenges for the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) government.
