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Divergent perspectives about water security: hydrosocial transformations in the metropolitan region of Montevideo (Uruguay).
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Dias Tadeu, Natalia
Trimble, Micaela
Lázaro, Marila
Venturini, Paula
Venegas, Mauricio
Trimble, Micaela
Lázaro, Marila
Venturini, Paula
Venegas, Mauricio
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Right to water
Hydrosocial imaginaries
Power relationships
Privatization
Scalar struggles
Hydrosocial imaginaries
Power relationships
Privatization
Scalar struggles
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2023
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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 dierent 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.
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Frontiers
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Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2023, 5: 120765.
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ANII: FMV_1_2019_1_155502
ANII: POS_NAC_M_2020_1_164367
ANII: POS_FMV_2020_1_1009230
ANII: POS_NAC_M_2020_1_164367
ANII: POS_FMV_2020_1_1009230
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Dias Tadeu, N, Trimble, M, Lázaro, M [y otros autores]. "Divergent perspectives about water security: hydrosocial transformations in the metropolitan region of Montevideo (Uruguay)". Frontiers in Sustainable Cities. [en línea] 2023, 5: 120765. 9 h. DOI: 10.3389/frsc.2023.120765.
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