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Ensuring access to water in an emergency context: Towards an overexploitation and contamination of water resources?

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This article shows how geo-legal devices created to deal with environmental crisis situations make access to drinking water precarious and contribute to the overexploitation and contamination of water resources. It relies on qualitative methods (interviews, observations, archive work) to identify and analyse two geo-legal devices applied in the case study of the Elqui Valley in Chile. The first device, generated by the Declaration of Water Scarcity, allows private sanitation companies to concentrate water rights and extend their supply network, thus producing an overexploitation of water resources. In the context of mining pollution, the second device is structured around the implementation of the Rural Drinking Water Programme and the distribution of water by tankers, which has made access to drinking water more precarious for the population and does nothing to prevent pollution.

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hal-03515980 , version 1 (07-01-2022)

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Chloé Nicolas Artero. Ensuring access to water in an emergency context: Towards an overexploitation and contamination of water resources?. Social & legal studies, 2021, pp.096466392110316. ⟨10.1177/09646639211031626⟩. ⟨hal-03515980⟩
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