The Limitations of Water Regulation: The Failure of the Cochabamba Concession in Bolivia

By A. Nickson, C. Vargas. 2002

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Private Participation in Infrastructure in Developing Countries: Trends, Impacts, and Policy Lessons (2003, background): “Sources: OED (2002), Foster and Irusta (2001), Barja and Urquiola (2001).”
Privatisation Results: Private Sector Participation in Water Services After 15 Years (2006, background): “Nickson and Vargas (2002) show how vested interests, combined with politics, lack of proper communication and street protests, managed to cancel the Cochabamba water concession projects in Bolivia.”
State Restructuring and the Scale Politics of Rural Water Governance in Bolivia (2005, background): “Scholarly and popular literature on water regulation under neoliberalism has focused primarily on urban water-supply systems and their (partial) privatization (see, inter alia, Bakker 2000; 2002; Finnegan, 2002; Haughton, 1998; 2002; Marvin and Laurie, 1999; Nickson and Vargas, 2002; Swyngedouw, 199”
Has Private Participation in Water and Sewerage Improved Coverage? Empirical Evidence from Latin America (2004, background): “Nickson and Vargas (2002) Hall (2002)(2002) Chile (Santiago) 1990 1996 Service Contracts Positive By 1990, the state-owned Santiago Metropolitan Sanitary Works Enterprise (EMOS) had run into financial problems.”