El Salvador’s water utility looks for a saviour
- From: Vol 8, Issue 7 (July 2007)
- Category: General
- Region: Americas
- Country: El Salvador
Plans to open up the water sector to private investment have been met with street riots.
Government plans to open up El Salvador’s water utility ANDA to private sector investment were thrown into doubt on 2 July, when thousands of protesters blocked roads and demonstrated at an event to mark the official launch of the project in Suchitoto, north of the capital San Salvador.
Right-wing president Tony Saca was barely able to make his policy ...
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