Bolivia/Ecuador/Peru: As Water Scarcity Deepens across Latin America, Political Instability Grows

Mar 1, 2017 | John Vidal, Guardian
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Other Latin American countries are also experiencing renewed water conflicts as climate change affects rainfalls while mining and agribusiness demand more. In Chile, the first country in the world to privatise water in the 1980s, political momentum is gathering to reform free market laws and make water accessible to all. Climate change, expected to severely reduce water availability in Santiago and elsewhere, has been blamed for devastating unseasonal rains which last week led to floods and left millions without piped water.