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Completed Fighting InequalitiesSustainable Cities Bolivia 110000 € 1 year and 4 months Research on inequalities Bolivia Postgrado en Ciencias del Desarrollo – Universidad Mayor de San Andrés Les inégalités face aux services urbains de l’eau à La Paz-El Alto - Visuel - Legal notice EU (project) Inequalities in urban water services are often perceived simplistically, according to a binary interpretation of “access/non-access,” with an end goal of making access to this public service universal. In other words, the issue has long been to ensure that all inhabitants enjoy access to water via a public service. This is all the more true in Bolivia, where water is considered as a “common good” subject to a principle of “non-commodification,” written in the country’s constitution since 2009. But the 2016 water crisis in La Paz has highlighted a new type of inequality in terms of water-supply service. During that drought episode, it was the inhabitants of the neighborhoods in the southern part of La Paz, where people from the middle and upper classes live, who were more exposed to the weakness of the main system of water access and who were deprived of water service. This shows one of the many possible variations in inequality in urban water services, the analysis of which requires going beyond just the question of technical access to the network. 2018 2020 La Paz, El Alto
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