EFEBy Patricia Nieto Mariño
Santiago
14 May 2021
Candidates for Chile s constitutional convention push for right to water
A tanker truck driver delivers water to a home in Petorca, Chile, on 1 April 2021. EFE/Alberto Valdes
The driver poses next to a tanker truck while delivering water to homes in Petorca, Chile, on 1 April 2021. EFE/Alberto Valdes
This image captured by a drone shows a lush grove of avocado trees amid an arid landscape in Petorca, Chile, on 1 April 2021. EFE/Alberto Valdes
Just a trickle of water comes out when Rosalba Quiroz, whose family have spent generations raising cattle in the central Chilean locality of Petorca, turns on the faucet inside her home on the banks of a dry river bed.
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By Patricia Nieto Mariño
Santiago, May 13 (EFE).- Just a trickle of water comes out when Rosalba Quiroz, whose family have spent generations raising cattle in the central Chilean locality of Petorca, turns on the faucet inside her home on the banks of a dry river bed.
Many thousands of households are without running water in the Andean nation, where an estimated 80 percent of the liquid is the property of agribusiness, mining and energy interests.
So it is no surprise that 539 of the 1,373 people running in the May 15-16 election to an assembly charged with drafting a new constitution have signed on to “Suelta el Agua” (Release the Water), an initiative of Greenpeace Chile aimed at reversing decades of water privatization.