Un Lustro Sin Agua Potable en Yopal, Bajo la Lupa de la Participación Ciudadana

Abstract

Five years without drinking water in Yopal, under the microscope of public participation This graduation work has as an objective to show the social problems generated by the shortage of drinking water in Yopal Casanare and its relation with the birth of democratic processes. Analyzing the phenomenon of citizen participation motivated by precious liquid missing after a landslide destroyed the plant of potable water in the city. It shows the inability of the various state entities, when articulated to give prompt a fundamental right, drinking water solutions. Review how this situation triggered a social movement that has been supplier of actions to provide a solution, telling the ineffective actions of the Colombian state have prolonged the issue for five years. It proposes the retention of citizen oversight accompanying major public projects, citing the deep wells in Yopal.