Lima grapples with investment challenge
- From: Vol 7, Issue 2 (February 2006)
- Category: General
- Region: Americas
- Country: Peru
Peru’s capital needs $1.3 billion to eliminate its seasonal water shortages. Too bad the politicians can’t agree.
Residents of Peru’s capital city, Lima, are used to water shortages. Every summer for the past decade, water services have been cut for many residents along Lima’s working class fringes, as years of underinvestment mean Peru cannot channel enough water down from the Andes to the desert coast. Last month, Sedapal proposed a solution: a 137% increase in ...
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