describe bolivia water war
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1️⃣The World Bank pressurised the government to give up its control of municipal water supply.
2️⃣The government sold these rights for the city of Cochabamba to a multi-national company(MNC).
3️⃣The company immediately increased the price of water four times. This led to a spontaneous popular protest.
4️⃣A new alliance of labour, human rights and community leaders forced the officials of the MNC to flee the city and made the government concede
to all the demands of the protesters.
5️⃣The contract with the MNC was cancelled and water supply was restored to the municipality at old rates. This came to be known as Bolivia's water war.
2️⃣The government sold these rights for the city of Cochabamba to a multi-national company(MNC).
3️⃣The company immediately increased the price of water four times. This led to a spontaneous popular protest.
4️⃣A new alliance of labour, human rights and community leaders forced the officials of the MNC to flee the city and made the government concede
to all the demands of the protesters.
5️⃣The contract with the MNC was cancelled and water supply was restored to the municipality at old rates. This came to be known as Bolivia's water war.
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Bolivia water war is actually the huge protest series by the people of bolivia against a government act. The government of bolivia privatize the water supply of the Bolivia in 1999 . As the result of the privatization ,the company holding the water supply rises the rate of water by few times .
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