Privatización y globalización en los servicios públicos de acueducto y alcantarillado. Balance para el caso de Palmira, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
globalization privatization water resources water supply and sewerage publicprivate partnership governance.
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The privatisation policies for the management of water resources, drinking-water and sanitation sectors are an efficient tool of globalisation to facilitate channelling the surplus from developed countries towards new sources of capital accumulation. In this context, this article presents an analysis of the results of the privatisation of drinking-water and sanitation services in Colombia, taking as a case study the process carried out in the city of Palmira (227,000 inhabitants) in the Valle del Cauca department. The article helps to illustrate the different effects of the process, showing that as the same time as some benefits have been produced to improvements in service -provision efficiency, other more damaging effects have also been generated, which should be taken into account before this process be fully developed in Colombia and Latin America.
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Pérez Rincón MA. Privatización y globalización en los servicios públicos de acueducto y alcantarillado. Balance para el caso de Palmira, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. inycomp [Internet]. 2005 Jan. 7 [cited 2024 Nov. 22];7(1):90-103. Available from: https://revistaingenieria.univalle.edu.co/index.php/ingenieria_y_competitividad/article/view/2530
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