Jose Esteban Castro, Leo Heller, Maria da Piedade Morais, and Alex R. Caldera Ortega (Eds.), The Right to Water as Public Policy in Latin America: a Theoretical and Empirical Exploration [in Spanish], Brasilia: Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA) – WATERLAT-GOBACIT Network,and University of Guanajuato, Campus Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico, 2023. ISBN: 978-65-5635-048-6 DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.38116/978-65-5635-048-6. Available here in pdf format.
“This book, the result of a collaboration between IPEA’s Directorate of Regional, Urban, and Environmental Studies and Policies (DIRUR) and the WATERLAT-GOBACIT Network, addresses issues that are fundamental to understand the challenges facing, in practical terms, the materialization of public policies oriented towards implementing the human right to water.
The book is an extended version of the original published in Portuguese in 2015.
The book features 15 chapters, including experiences from Argentina, Brazil, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.