2. Water war of
Cochabamba
• The Cochabamba protests of
2000, also known as the
Cochabamba Water War or
the Water War in Bolivia,[1]
were a series of protests that
took place in Cochabamba,
Bolivia's third 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.[2]
3. Cause of water war In
Cochabamba
• The tensions erupted when a
new firm, Aguas del Tunari – a
joint venture involving Bechtel
and Suez Lyonnaise – was
required to invest in construction
of long-envisioned dthey had
dramatically raised water rates.
Protests, largely organized
through the Coordinadora in
Defense of Water and Life, a
community coalition, erupted in
January, February, and April
2000, culminating in tens of
thousands marching downtown
and battling police. One civilian,
Victor Hugo Daza was killedam
4. Impact of the water war
• In Bolivia, the Water Revolt
ignited a chain of events that
provoked historic political and
social change. For almost two
decades Bolivian economics
had been dominated by the
Washington Consensus,
market-driven policies pushed
by the World Bank and the IMF
and carried out by national
leadership that was fiercely
obedient to those policies. The
Water Revolt shook those
arrangements to their core.
6. What is rainwater harvesting?
• Rainwater harvesting is the
accumulation and deposition of
rainwater for reuse before it reaches
the aquifer. Uses include water for
garden, water for livestock, water for
irrigation, and indoor heating for
houses etc.. In many places the
water collected is just redirected to a
deep pit with percolation. The
harvested water can be used as
drinking water as well as for storage
and other purpose like irrigation
7. Benefits of rainwater
harvesting
• To harness good quality water
resource now being wasted
• To prevent groundwater depletion
• To augment the expensive piped
water supply
• To save expenditure on water
• To prevent soil erosion and urban
flooding
• Inexpensive and simple
technology
• Aids ecological conservation
8. Rain water harvesting
•
Rainwater harvesting refers to structures like
homes or schools, which catch rainwater and store it
in underground or above-ground tanks for later use.
One way to collect water is rooftop rainwater
harvesting, where any suitable roof surface — tiles,
metal sheets, plastics, but not grass or palm leaf —
can be used to intercept the flow of rainwater in
combination with gutters and downpipes (made
from wood, bamboo, galvanized iron, or PVC)
to provide a household with high-quality drinking
water. A rooftop rainwater harvesting system might
be a 500 cubic meter underground storage tank,
serving a whole community, or it might be just a
bucket, standing underneath a roof without a
gutter. Rainwater harvesting systems have been
used since antiquity, and examples abound in all
the great civilizations throughout history
![Water war of
Cochabamba
• The Cochabamba protests of
2000, also known as the
Cochabamba Water War or
the Water War in Bolivia,[1]
were a series of protests that
took place in Cochabamba,
Bolivia's third 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.[2]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)