Título : Divergent perspectives about water security: hydrosocial transformations in the metropolitan region of Montevideo (Uruguay)
Autor(es) : Dias Tadeu, Natalia
Trimble, Micaela
Lázaro, Marila
Venturini, Paula
Venegas, Mauricio
Fecha de publicación : 19-sep-2023
Tipo de publicación: Artículo
Versión: Publicado
Publicado por: Frontiers
Publicado en: Frontiers in Sustainable Cities
Areas del conocimiento : Ciencias Sociales
Otras Ciencias Sociales
Ciencias Sociales Interdisciplinarias
Otros descriptores : right to water
hydrosocial imaginaries
power relationships
privatization
scalar struggles
Resumen : The Montevideo Metropolis, where more than half of Uruguay's population resides, is supplied with water from the Santa Lucía River (SLR), which faces increasing problems of water quality and quantity. In 2020, in the context of national government political changes, a hydraulic project (called Neptuno) involving the construction of a purification plant using water from the Río de la Plata estuary (close to the SLR basin), was proposed by a consortium of private companies. The aim of this paper is to analyze the arguments to support and oppose the Neptuno Project, as well as the hydrosocial transformations promoted by it in the SLR basin, including the scalar strategies adopted. Primary and secondary data (interviews, participant observation, and document analysis) were triangulated. Coalitions pro and against the greater involvement of the private sector with water supply services were identified. Our research shows that diverse perspectives of water security, related to different hydrosocial projects, reflect opposed interests and divergent objectives in a context of disputes within asymmetrical power relationships. This has been reactivating the coalition of the historic conflict against the privatization processes that preceded the constitutional reform in Uruguay in 2004. This coalition, against the Neptuno project, carried out a “jump scale,” taking the issue from the local to the national scale.
URI / Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12381/3482
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2023.1207652
Institución responsable del proyecto: Universidad de la República
Instituto Sudamericano para Estudios sobre Resiliencia y Sostenibilidad
Financiadores: Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación
Comisión Académica de Posgrado
Identificador ANII: FMV_1_2019_1_155502
Nivel de Acceso: Acceso abierto
Licencia CC: Reconocimiento 4.0 Internacional. (CC BY)
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