Description
Book SynopsisWater 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 sustainabl
Trade Review"
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." * H-Net Reviews *
"Hines masterfully illuminates the historical roots of grassroots water mobilization." * Hispanic American Historical Review *
Table of ContentsContents
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
