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 Je! 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 di" 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 Je! 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 e! 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 # 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 o" cials and social organizations. Learn more at www.clacso.org ABOUT THE AUTHORS Tatiana Acevedo Guerrero is Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Politics of Wastewater at the IHE Del$ Institute for Water Education in the Netherlands. She is concerned with the relationships and histories that are re%ected in access to (and exclusion from) water supply, sanitation, and drainage. Her research documents the ways in which residents of di!erent neighborhoods make water %ow 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 %ood 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 Ponti#cia 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 Ponti#cia Bolivariana-Medellín. iii 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 di!erent public authorities in the implementation of European policies, especially in the #eld 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 O"cer 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 #elds of water and sustainability. Holding a Master’s degree in European a!airs, she has previously worked with complementary European organisations in Brussels, Belgium. Marcela González-Rivas is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International A!airs at the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Her central research interests revolve around sustainable water policy, equity, and water governance with a focus on how uneven access to water varies across communities and regions and how policymaking and planning can exacerbate or diminish such inequalities with particular concentration on Mexico and Latin America more broadly. Mary Grant is the Public Water for All Campaign Director at Food & Water Watch. She oversees campaigns to support universal access to safe water in the United States by promoting responsible and a!ordable public provision of water and sewer service. She has a Bachelor degree in Environmental Sciences from Duke University. iv Léandre Guigma is an architect with a PhD in urban planning. He combines his professional activities (manager of Perspective, a consultancy agency in urban studies in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso) with teaching and academic research. His research and expertise focuses on the role of precarious neighborhoods and the coordination of actors governing cities in Africa. Christopher Herzog has a professional background in civil protection, disaster control and risk management. For the past three years, he has worked at Hamburg Wasser as an engineer in the department that operates and maintains the water supply and wastewater networks in Hamburg. He is specialized in crisis management and plays a key role in the Covid-19 emergency committee. Petri S. Juuti is the head of the CADWES and IEHG research teams, UNESCO Professor and Adjunct Professor/Docent in Finnish History (University of Turku) and Adjunct Professor in Environmental History (University of Tampere, UTA) and in History of Technology (University of Oulu) in Finland. His major area of interest is environmental history, especially the interaction between society and nature. Craig Laird works as a Partnerships and Outreach Specialist for the Global Water Operators’ Partnerships Alliance (GWOPA) where he is leading e!orts to increase GWOPA’s membership and engagement among key stakeholders, most notably public water utilities. Anne Le Strat is the former Deputy-Mayor of Paris and Chair of Eau De Paris. She is currently a research fellow at New York University in the United States. Alex Lo!us is Reader in Political Ecology at King’s College London. His research addresses questions in political ecology, ranging from debates over water privatization, to struggles over water in post- apartheid South Africa, around the right to water and more recently debates over the #nancialization of water infrastructure Hug March is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Economy and Business, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), and researcher of the Laboratory of Urban Transformation and