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Armijos, Maria Teresa 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1020-6056 and Walnycki, Anna Maria
(2014)
Why participation matters: Communal drinking water management in Bolivia and Ecuador.
IDS Bulletin, 45 (2-3).
pp. 43-55.
ISSN 0265-5012
Abstract
In the past 30 years, Drinking Water Users' Associations (DWUAs) have emerged in peri-urban and rural areas in Bolivia and Ecuador where public utilities do not operate. While recognising the challenges to service provision and the problematic around the role of the state that exists in both countries, this article seeks to understand why and how local participation in drinking water systems has been so important for the formation of newly formed peri-urban and rural communities in both Andean nations. It argues that through participation in collective (communal) activities and decision-making, communities are constructed. This article will highlight, through our own experiences, why it became so important for us as researchers to participate in communal water management activities during fieldwork.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development) |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Global Environmental Justice University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research |
| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 15 May 2014 12:54 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Mar 2024 16:53 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/48466 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1759-5436.12082 |
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