Las carencias de agua potable en Colombia.

CONTENT

PROLOGUE

INTRODUCTION

SECTION ONE

THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO DRINKING WATER

CHAPTER 1

THE RESIDUAL CORE OF THE HUMAN RIGHT TO WATER IN COLOMBIA: THE ROLE OF ECONOMIC DISCOURSE IN ITS DELIMITATION

1.1. Neoliberal reforms and public services
1.2. Problems accessing water supply services
1.3. The public water service and the human right to water
1.4. The jurisprudential delimitation of a residual core of the right to water

Final reflections
Bibliography

CHAPTER 2

THE GUARANTEE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL SOCIAL RIGHT TO DRINKING WATER AND WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS

2.1. Constitutional jurisprudence and the right to access drinking water
2.2. The alternative structure of the positive fundamental social right to access drinking water
2.3. The rights-holder: the need for a universal, non-"preferential" understanding
2.4. The passive subject or duty-bearer: the State, not service users or providers, must fulfill this duty
2.5. The object of the right (i): the jurisprudential standard of vital minimum is insufficient to ensure effective protection
2.5.1. The vital minimum standard obscures the real issues affecting the guarantee of the right and simplifies human diversity
2.5.2. The vital minimum constitutional jurisprudence discourages individual agency – the capacity to act or the promotion of freedom – and therefore hinders the development of one's ability to meet the basic need that the right protects
2.6. The object of the right (ii): its grounding in the capabilities approach allows for more effective and efficient protection
2.6.1. The state's duty to promote the development of individuals’ capacity to meet their basic need for access to drinking water
2.6.2. The state's duty to guarantee the satisfaction of the basic need for access to drinking water for individuals in vulnerable fundamental rights situations

Bibliography

SECTION TWO

REGULATION, OVERSIGHT, AND CONTROL

CHAPTER 3

THE ECONOMIC THEORY OF REGULATION: A READING BASED ON INFORMATION PROBLEMS

3.1. Information economics
3.2. The treatment of information problems
3.3. Monopoly regulation and information problems
3.3.1. The public interest theory
3.3.1.1. Regulation without information asymmetries: the basic traditional model
3.3.1.2. Regulation with asymmetric information: rate of return and price caps
3.3.2. Regulatory strategies and mechanisms under asymmetric information
3.3.2.1. Competition-related mechanisms
3.3.2.2. Incentive schemes
3.3.2.3. Alternative regulators
3.4. The private interest theory

Final reflections
Bibliography

CHAPTER 4

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF WATER LOSS REGULATION IN COLOMBIA

4.1. Water policy under Law 142 of 1994 and sectoral regulation: toward privatization and corporate management of services
4.2. The stages of regulation in the potable water and basic sanitation sector
4.2.1. First stage of regulation: Resolution CRA 08 of 1995
4.2.2. Second stage of regulation: Resolution CRA 287 of 2004
4.2.3. Third stage of regulation: Resolution CRA 688 of 2014

Final reflections
Bibliography

SECTION THREE

EFFECTIVENESS OF PUBLIC POLICIES IN SERVICE PROVISION

CHAPTER 5

SOCIOECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS AND EFFECTS ON THE CONSUMPTION OF THE VITAL MINIMUM OF WATER: A LITERATURE REVIEW

5.1. International evidence
5.1.1. Australia
5.1.2. South Africa
5.1.3. Belgium
5.2. National evidence
5.2.1. "Impact of the Minimum Vital Water Measure on Household Spending Capacity in Bogotá, February 2012 - October 2013"
5.2.2. "Impact of the Potable Water Minimum Vital Program on Average Water Consumption in Bogotá"
5.2.3. "Impact of a Program for Water Affordability on Residential Consumption: Implementation of the 'Programa Mínimo Vital de Agua Potable' in Bogotá, Colombia"
5.2.4. "Determinants in Implementing a Public Policy for an Essential Volume of Free Water in Bogotá and Medellín, Colombia"

Final considerations
Bibliography

CHAPTER 6

WATER BALANCE IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA OF BOGOTÁ

6.1. The urban determinants of residential water use
6.1.1. The importance of water resources in urban centers
6.2. The natural hydrological cycle
6.2.1. How the watershed functions
6.3. The construction of the metropolis – Urban processes
6.4. Urban and rural relationships
6.5. Analysis of water availability for Bogotá and its immediate surrounding municipalities
6.6. Description of the water supply system for Bogotá
6.7. Projection of residential water demand
6.7.1. Demand projection using the subscriber method
6.7.1.1. Estimated total population using subscriber projections for the design period
6.7.1.2. Demand projection based on calculations proposed in the POT agreement project
6.7.1.3. Demand projection based on calculations proposed in the Mission Cities project
6.8. Analysis of water resource balance for population projections
6.8.1. Water resource availability
6.8.2. Capacity of primary infrastructure
6.9. Demand projection by saturation in the 2019 POT agreement project in Bogotá
6.10. Analysis of the current development model concerning water resource availability

Final reflections
Bibliography

CHAPTER 7

INEQUALITY, INEQUITY, AND CORRUPTION: ANALYSIS OF THE PERSISTENT FEATURES OF ACCESS TO DRINKING WATER AND SANITARY SERVICES FOR WASTE DISPOSAL IN COLOMBIA

7.1. Inequality, inequity, and corruption: theoretical approaches
7.1.1. Greater inequality, freedom, and the idea of justice
7.1.2. Inequity in billing and disregard for progressivity
7.1.3. Corporate-origin state corruption
7.2. Access to reliable water sources and sanitary waste disposal services
7.2.1. Regional inequality, statistical fallacy, and the construction of peripheries
7.2.2. Inequity, when a greater good is considered an inferior good
7.2.3. Corruption, the murkiness of business with water

Final reflections
Bibliography

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