Cochabamba Water War
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cochabamba-water-war-229-3240003
title:
Cochabamba Water War
text:
The Cochabamba Water War, also known as the Bolivian Water War, was a series of protests that took place in Cochabamba, Bolivia's fourth largest city, between December 1999 and April 2000 in response to the privatization of the city's municipal water supply company SEMAPA. The wave of demonstrations and police violence was described as a public uprising against water prices. The tensions erupted when a new firm, Aguas del Tunari,was required to invest in construction of a long-envisioned dam, so
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1999–2000 mass protests against water supply privatisation in Bolivia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochabamba_Water_War
date created:
2003-03-11T05:39:17Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T16:06:10Z
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