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Mining and struggles around control over water in southern Peru
Jessica Budds20 March 2009
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outline� introduction: why water? � water governance in Peru
� water issues and conflicts around mining� case studies: Moquegua and Tacna
� final remarks
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introduction: why water?� water markets and mining in Northern Chile� scoping research in Peru
� mining uses huge amounts of water � water’s geographical uneveness
� water’s flowing nature � water’s material and symbolic characteristics
� José de Echave: all mining conflicts involve water � power relations underlying control of water shape
waterscapes
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water governance in Peru� Ministries of Energy & Mines / Agriculture / Health� local Administrador Técnico de Departamento de Riego
� allocation led by agricultural authorities � licencias (administrative concession) needed for all uses -
many unregistered (informal ≠ illegal)
� licencias allocated to land and not formally tradable
� debates around water markets (Chile) since Fujimori � MEM: promotion development and regulation� weak state capacity for assessment/monitoring, esp ATDR
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water-mining issues� quality (pollution, health) � quantity
� headwaters / glaciers � ecology / hydrology
� access / dispossession (informal rights respected) � inconsistency between basin and administrative boundaries
� embedded in wider development issues linked to water
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Cuajone – quality� past performance: Ilo smelter, Labor, compensation� community allegations of watercourse pollution and variation
(colours, oily residues, aquatic life, crops)� company produces its own data and technical studies� ATDR and communities have no resources� Labor tests found nothing� complaints over lack of drinking water supply � companies: use not availability – critical of farming methods� co-option through technical assistance (loans)
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Quellaveco – quantity� copper mine cannot secure water: scarcity + allocation� who owns water?
� water from Puno? � reliant on groundwater but local opposition: scientific overlap
� cultural notions of groundwater and perceived impacts� company planning dam and river diversion: win-win to
counter downstream resistance due to irrigation project � company ‘working with’ government for solution (infra)� complex and varied local responses to mine development
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conclusions� controlling water is paramount for both mining companies
and communities and thus becomes a key site of conflict
� water can be more complicated to obtain (licencias), and also transfers impacts beyond the mine site
� companies treat water as a technical / governmental issue and overlook its cultural dimensions
� these are more than conflicts over material water: conflicts over meaning, perceived rights, mode of development