
Introduction: Global Water Grab in the Andes
International demand for gold, groceries, and energy is driving destructive policies that pollute and deplete the water supplies of rural ...

Power Struggle: Chileans Face Off on Hydroelectric Dams
A startlingly cold storm pushed its way across central Chile last February, blanketing the Andes in snow and reminding Santiagos ...

Water, INC.
NASAs ongoing mission to Mars seeks to find signs of life on the red planet. To determine if extraterrestrial life ...

Conflict in the Borderlands
The history of U.S.-Mexico relations concerning water is one of barely contained, and sometimes open, diplomatic conflict. Within the United ...

Fighting The Delta Blues
With its water levels dropping precipitously, the Colorado River Delta faces a bleak future. The survival of the Deltaand of ...

Water Privatization in Buenos Aires
During the 1990s, as part of the countrys profound neoliberal economic and social transformation, Argentina experimented with a broad process ...

Running Water: Partcipatory Management in Brazil
In Brazil, a reform of the countrys water management system is underway. This process did not result from either a ...

The Struggle for Latin America’s Water
Latin America is blessed with an abundance of fresh water. The region contains four of the worlds 25 largest riversthe ...