Complicating neoliberalization and decentralization: the non-linear experience of Colombian water supply, 1909–2012

Guerrero, Tatiana Acevedo; Furlong, Kathryn; Arias, Javier Carrasco

doi:10.1080/07900627.2015.1026434

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“…Numerous calculation methods are available to estimate the economic performance of the alternatives [45,51]. For this decision problem, however, we suggest evaluating the present value of the costs (PVC) instead of the net present value (NPV), because the estimated earnings of the project during its lifecycle should represent a cost recovery for water suppliers using a typically regulated water distribution tariff [52]. The PVC includes construction and operation costs.…”

Section: Economic Evaluationmentioning

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A New Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Methodology for the Selection of New Water Supply Infrastructure

Amorocho-Daza

Cabrales

Santos

et al. 2019

Water

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Reliable and safe access to drinking water is necessary to ensure the economic and social sustainable development of human communities. This task requires a multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) methodology to select alternatives for new water supply infrastructure. These alternatives represent significant financial resources and are established for a long lifespan. To support decision-making in the context of building new water supply infrastructure, this study developed an MCDA methodology that integrates a hierarchy of non-economic benefits and the expected costs into a global index. Our methodology was implemented in the city of Santa Marta, Colombia. This city currently has a 60% drinking water shortage, and urgently needs to expand its capacity to satisfy the increasing water demand. The results of this study support the implementation of the best alternative for addressing Santa Marta’s water supply problem by considering the preferences of stakeholders.

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Section: Economic Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A New Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Methodology for the Selection of New Water Supply Infrastructure

Amorocho-Daza

Cabrales

Santos

et al. 2019

Water

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“…The evolution of water supply regulation in Colombia offers some inspiration with respect to ethical policy engagement. Since the mid-20th century, state policies of regulated solidary have required the cross-subsidization of utility services (and their extension) whereby those with greater means subsidize the access of lower-income sectors [89,90]. This is useful in thinking through an ethics of care that engages the state, contributing to the institutionalization care.…”

Section: Problematic Situations: From Crisis To Carementioning

confidence: 99%

Everyday Practices, Everyday Water: From Foucault to Rivera-Cusicanqui (with a Few Stops in between)

Furlong

Roca-Servat

Guerrero

et al. 2019

Water

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In this article, we explore elements of the literature on practices and the everyday to provide reference points for water researchers. We cast a wide net in recognition of the complex and multifaceted nature of human relationships to water that cannot be reduced to a single perspective. The article begins with the work of prominent French theorists including Foucault, Lefebvre, Bourdieu and de Certeau. Each grapples with the interrelationship between wider socio-political processes and practice in different ways. This leads us to pragmatism and non-representational theory in the second section, which argue that to understand socio-political processes, one must begin from practices. In the third section, we engage with work on practices in conditions of instability and precarity, which are widespread under contemporary conditions of post-colonial neoliberalism, and the role of “care” in mitigating their effects. In section four, we discuss the scholarship and practice of Silvia Rivera-Cusicanqui, who explores and extends many of the approaches elaborated above. The article concludes with a reflection on what this means for engaging with the multiple realities and ways of living with water.

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“…In Medellin, as in many other southern cities, urban policies of modernisation targeting low-and middle-income neighbourhoods combine two components: the commodification of many urban goods and services that were previously free in informal settlements and the formalisation of citizenship. The implementation of this 'social compact' through urban networked services has been well documented (Jaglin 2005(Jaglin , 2014Luque-Ayala 2016;Pilo, 2015), and studies on Colombian utilities also emphasise how they combine reforms associated with neoliberalisation, extension of (water) supply and the modernisation pursued by urban policies (Acevedo Guerrero, Furlong, and Arias 2015;Furlong 2013;López Rivera 2013). Against this backdrop, we question how strategic policies are developed into workable actions by utilities in a social housing district in Medellin: we examine the material effects, places and modalities of EPM-dweller interactions, the content of their everyday negotiations to domesticate the conditions of service delivery, their results and limitations.…”

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When urban modernisation entails service delivery co-production: a glance from Medellin

Gomez

Jaglin

2016

Urban Research & Practice

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Through the example of Ciudadela Nuevo Occidente, a large social housing district in Medellín, this article describes a process that primarily involves co-learning and micronegotiations that help produce the cognitive alignment necessary to the management of services. The hypothesis put forward in this article is that the frictions caused by the residents' difficulties in adapting to the socioeconomic , cultural and cognitive frameworks of their new environment, imposed by urban modernisation running processes, engender forms of service co-production that ultimately strengthen the utility's capacity to extend and adapt its delivery model while enhancing the quality of services.

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Complicating neoliberalization and decentralization: the non-linear experience of Colombian water supply, 1909–2012

Cited by 23 publications

References 24 publications

A New Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Methodology for the Selection of New Water Supply Infrastructure

A New Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Methodology for the Selection of New Water Supply Infrastructure

Everyday Practices, Everyday Water: From Foucault to Rivera-Cusicanqui (with a Few Stops in between)

When urban modernisation entails service delivery co-production: a glance from Medellin

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