The globalization process has become more complicated in the last three decades with the expansion of the neo-liberal development model defined by the Washington Consensus. It has imposed new strategies for the access and control of natural resources. One of those strategies was the privatization of water, transforming a common good into a commodity for those groups that may pay for it. It aided the growth of multinational companies specializing in the provision of water, as part policies of privatization and commercialization promoted by the World Bank and WTO/GATS.
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