Voces Por El Agua # 19 - Audiolibro Gratis

Talk (in Spanish) with Alex Caldera, University of Guanajuato, Mexico, and Jose Esteban Castro, National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Argentina and Newcastle University, UK. In this issue we feature Hugo Maturana Aguilar, President of the Workers Union of Valparaiso’s Company of Sanitary Works (ESVAL S.A.), and President of the Executive Directorship, National Federation of Workers of Sanitary Works (FENATRAOS), Chile, who talks about the challenges and opportunities facing water resources and water and sanitation services in Chile. The talk also focuses on the crisis triggered in the city of Osorno in July 2019, when the city was left without water supply for over two weeks by failures of the privatized Los Lagos Company of Sanitary Services (ESSAL), owned by the French multinational Suez. This podcast is part of the activities taking place within the Cooperation Agreement between the WATERLAT-GOBACIT Network and the Public Services International (PSI), and the collaboration with the  Confederation of Workers of Water, Sanitation, and Environment Services of the  Americas (CONTAGUAS).