El derecho al agua a través de la prestación del servicio público de acueducto en Colombia.

Abstract

In recent decades, water right has been presenting an important development in state administrations, as well as the recognition of this right through the provision of the public household aqueduct service. In Colombia, this evolution has been taking place through the regulation of the provision of the service from its technical, economic, social, and administrative components, which have allowed us to have better coverage of this service in the interior of our country compared to previous decades, but without yet achieving the goal of having total coverage in urban and rural areas of the municipalities that make up the Colombian state. In the present document, an analysis is made of those characteristics that the state has formulated for the development of service provision, starting with the regulations applicable to the matter, the state agencies that serve as support and regulation, the different jurisprudence in which this right is recognized, passing through the very concept of public utilities, the obtaining of resources to finance their infrastructure projects, the applicable tariff regime according to the nature and number of users, the current conditions of the service providers, the role played by the territorial entities in the provision of the service, ending with a specific case in the municipality of Sopó (Cundinamarca), to determine whether these advances guarantee the financial resources needed to guarantee Colombians' right to water.