Changing the flow

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This 55-page booklet collects twelve brief interviews with water activists from Latin America as well as declarations from a historic gathering in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in August, 2008, where leading figures in the social movements of the Americas came together to envision the way forward for community-controlled water management.

INTRODUCTION: The Rise of Water on the Global Agenda
PART ONE: Individual Voices

• A Planetary Vision
  Adriana Marquisio, Uruguay
• Protecting Territory, Protecting Culture
  Danilo Urrea, Colombia
• We Continue to Hold the Ancestral Values
  Saúl Roqué Morales, Mexico
• A New Defi nition of Hope
  Ana Ella Gómez, El Salvador
• The Power that Makes Pitchers Overfl ow and Rivers Flood their Banks
  Erasto
  Reyes, Honduras
• The Fight for a New Ideal
  Nelly Avendaño, Peru
• Returning to a Culture of Water
  Guillermo Amorobieta, Argentina
• Keepers of Water
  Juan Pablo Martines, Ecuador
• Alternatives for Another, Possible World
  Mabel Melo, Brazil
• The Challenge of Building a Public Company • Alberto Muñoz, Argentina
• A Struggle for Life
  Marcela Olivera, Bolivia
• Collective Solutions to Water and Sanitation Problems
  Mariela Cruz Salazar, Venezuela

PART TWO: A Collective Voice

• The Water Movement in the Americas Today
• Collective Discussions from the Seminar, Water: Common Good, Public Management and
• Alternatives – Alternatives to the Privatisation and Commercialisation of Water
• Cochabamba Declaration in Defence of Water

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