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Public Water and Covid-19 Dark Clouds and Silver Linings PUBLIC WATER AND COVID -19 DARK CLOUDS AND SILVER LININGS Edited by David A. McDonald, Susan Spronk and Daniel Chavez PUBLIC WATER AND COVID-19 DARK CLOUDS AND SILVER LININGS Edited by David A. McDonald, Susan J. Spronk and Daniel Chavez Copy editor: Emily Jeff ers Design and Layout: Daniel Chavez Published by: Municipal Service Project (Kingston), Transnational Institute (Amsterdam) and Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) (Buenos Aires) ISBN: E-Book: 978-1-55339-666-6 Print: 978-1-55339-667-3 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/28134 This publication and its separate chapters are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). You may copy and distribute the document, in its entirety or separate full chapters, as long as they are attributed to the authors and the publishing organizations, cite the original source for the publication, and use the contents for non-commercial, educational, or public policy purposes. Acknowledgments: We would like to acknowledge the work of all the authors in this volume who managed to produce excellent papers in a very short period of time under diffi cult circumstances. We would also like to thank Madeleine Bélanger Dumontier for her assistance in the early stages of the book, as well as Emily Jeff ers who did a remarkable job of copy editing a large number of very diverse papers in short order. Partial funding of this project came from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) as well as in-kind support from the Transnational Institute (TNI). The Municipal Services Project (MSP) is a global research network that explores alternatives to the privatization and commercialization of service provision with a focus on analyzing successful public service delivery models in an eff ort to understand the conditions required for their sustainability and reproducibility. Learn more at www.municipalservicesproject.org. The Transnational Institute (TNI) is an international research and advocacy institute committed to building a just, democratic and sustainable world. For more than 40 years, TNI has served as a unique nexus between social movements, engaged scholars and policy makers. Learn more at www.tni.org The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) is a non-governmental international organization established in 1967. It is one the world’s largest academic networks, currently composed of 736 research centres and graduate schools in all fi elds of the social sciences and humanities from 52 countries across the Americas and other regions of the world. It aims to build bridges and promote synergies between social researchers, public policy offi cials and social organizations. Learn more at www.clacso.org TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1 1 Introduction: Why Public Water Matters David A. McDonald, Susan Spronk and Daniel Chavez Chapter 2 25 Covid-19 and Structural Inequalities: Class, Gender, Race and Water Justice Susan Spronk Chapter 3 49 Are We All in This Together? Covid-19 and the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Alex Loftus and Farhana Sultana Chapter 4 61 Reinventing Public Water amid Covid-19 in Terrassa Mar Satorras, David Saurí, and Hug March Chapter 5 85 Water Shutoff Moratoria in the United States: The Role of Cities and States Mildred E. Warner, Marcela González Rivas, Mary Grant and Xue Zhang Chapter 6 101 Community-Based Water Provision in Colombia in Times Of Covid-19 Denisse Roca Servat, María Botero Mesa and Sara Correa Zuluaga Chapter 7 125 A Beacon of Hope at a Time of Crisis? Pursuit of Affordable Public Water in Baltimore Mary Grant Chapter 8 141 Covid-19, Water and the State in Uruguay: Dark Clouds Over a Suc- cessful Model of Public Services Delivery Daniel Chavez, Pablo Messina and Martín Sanguinetti Chapter 9 165 Transnational Solidarity: European Public Water Operators Working Across Borders to Address Covid-19 Milo Fiasconaro and Jovana Gojkovic Chapter 10 183 Water Operators Partnerships (WOPs): Public Utility Knowledge Exchange and Solidarity in Response to Crisis Craig Laird and Elisa Bernal iii Chapter 11 197 Defending Public Water in Times Of Crisis: “Popular Water Government” in Caracas, Venezuela Rebecca J. McMillan Chapter 12 221 A Double-Edged Sword? Covid-19 and Water Remunicipalization in Jakarta Marwa Marwa Chapter 13 235 An Opportunity to Pause and Reimagine: Jamaica’s Public Water After Covid-19 Beverley Mullings Chapter 14 247 An Insider’s Perspective: Hamburg Wasser’s Response to Covid-19 Christopher Herzog, Arnd Wendland and Claudia Wendland Chapter 15 265 Covid-19 And The Hope for Democratic Water Ownership In Ghana Leonard Shang-Quartey Chapter 16 271 A Democracy Stress Test: Eau De Paris and The Covid-19 Crisis Anne Le Strat Chapter 17 281 Nigeria’s Informal Water Providers: Filling in The Public Gaps Susan Agada Chapter 18 291 A Tale of Two Water Operators: Legacies of Public Versus Private Amidst Covid-19 in Pittsburgh Marcela González Rivas Chapter 19 311 The Long Road Out of Crisis: (Re)building Trust in Flint’s Public Water from Poisoning to Pandemic Benjamin J. Pauli Chapter 20 329 Full Cost Recovery Meets Crisis: Guaranteeing Access to Water Under Covid-19 In Colombia Jeimy Alejandra Arias Castaño and Kathryn Furlong Chapter 21 347 Cape Town’s Crisis-Ridden Response to Covid-19 Greg Ruiters Chapter 22 361 Sober Second Thoughts: Covid-19 and Water Privatization in Canada Robert Ramsay iv Chapter 23 375 The Paradox Of Free Urban Water: Burkina Faso’s Fight Against Covid-19 Catherine Baron and Léandre Guigma Chapter 24 393 Adaptability, Community and Solidarity: Public Water Operators in France During Covid-19 France Eau Publique Chapter 25 407 “The People Won’t Give up, Damn it!”: Reclaiming Public Water in Buenaventura, Colombia Tatiana Acevedo Guerrero Chapter 26 427 The Success of Public Water in Battling Covid-19 In Finland Petri S. Juuti and Riikka P. Rajala Chapter 27 433 Blue Communities in Quebec: Upholding The Highest Water Standards in Uncertain Times Isabelle Delainey Chapter 28 443 Ability to Pay Versus Right to Water: Commercial Imperatives and Social-public Alternatives in Medellin, Colombia Denisse Roca-Servat and Erika Meneses v vi ABOUT THE AUTHORS Tatiana Acevedo Guerrero is Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Politics of Wastewater at the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education in the Netherlands. She is concerned with the relationships and histories that are reflected in access to (and exclusion from) water supply, sanitation, and drainage. Her research documents the ways in which residents of different neighborhoods make water flow and evacuate. Susan Agada is an Environmental Management and Disaster Vulnerability Consultant. Her research specialization is disaster vulnerability and she has spent the last six years working on flood disasters in Nigeria. Susan currently holds a teaching position at the Department of Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada. Jeimy Alejandra Arias Castaño is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography, Université de Montréal, in Canada. He has a Bachelor of Political Science and Master’s in Political Studies from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He is a researcher with the Canada Research Chair in Water and Urbanization. Elisa Bernal Arellano is a journalist and communications specialist currently working as a consultant for the UN-Habitat-led Global Water Operators’ Partnership Alliance (GWOPA), headquartered in Bonn, Germany. She holds a Master’s degree in Middle Eastern Studies and has worked for the IEMed, a leading think-tank on Euro- Mediterranean relations. Catherine Baron is a Full Professor in Development Studies at the Political Science Institute of Toulouse, France. Her research focuses on urban water governance in developing countries, especially in Africa (Burkina Faso, Niger) and Indonesia. She focuses on equity in water access in precarious urban neighborhoods and participatory water governance with institutional approaches. María Botero-Mesa is a lawyer from the University of Antioquia with a Master´s degree in Development from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellín, Colombia. She is legal advisor of the Penca de Sábila Ecological and Cultural Corporation, and of the National Network of Community Aqueducts of Colombia, and researcher at the Territory Group of the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana-Medellín. vii Daniel Chavez is a Dutch-Uruguayan scholar activist. He is a Fellow of the Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute (TNI). He holds a BA in Social Anthropology from Uruguay’s University of the Republic and an MA and PhD in Development Studies from the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research interests focus on public policy, water and energy, state theory, and social movements. Isabelle Delainey is the Project Manager at Eau Secours in Québec, Canada. She has Bachelor’s degrees in geology and geography and a graduate diploma in pedagogy. She also holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Management and Sustainable Development and a graduate degree in Environmental Auditing. Milo Fiasconaro has been the Executive Director of Aqua Publica Europea – the European Association of Public Water Operators – since 2012. Prior to that, he worked for different public authorities in the implementation of European policies, especially in the field of Innovation and Environmental policies. He holds an MA in Human Geography from Durham University (UK) and a degree in Political Science from Florence University (Italy). Kathryn Furlong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Université de Montréal in Canada. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Water and Urbanization. Jovana Gojkovic is Senior Officer at Aqua Publica Europea, where she supports the facilitation of exchanges and cooperation between public water operators and contributes to EU policy discussions on behalf of the association’s members, in particular in the fields of water and sustainability. Holding a Master’s degree in European affairs, she has previously worked with complementary European organisations in Brussels, Belgium.
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