The human right to water has become a full blown global campaign. According to Karen Bakker, Founding Director of the Program on Water Governance at the University of British Columbia’s Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability, “many anti-privatization activists have forced their activities on this campaign, framing ‘water as a human right’ as a means of ethically refuting and practically constraining privatization.” After the protests and victory of Cochabomba, Bolivia in 2000 the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) stopped using the word “privatization” and instead use words such as “decentralization”,”concessions” or “Private sector participation” (upside down world). This was government's attempt of disguising the privatization …show more content…
IFI requires El Salvador’s government to open water management to private investment “as a condition for receiving loan money,which is usually destined toward infrastructure repair or new construction.” (upside down world.) El Salvador is country fill with gang related crimes and is in much poverty so these loans are usually their only opinion. According to LaDawn Haglund, the El Salvadoran government felt that maintaining ANDA and not switching to Private corporations would be bad because it would be difficult to maintain the “high levels of growth needed to reduce widespread poverty, particularly in the rural area.” Then, on top of the structural adjustment loans, Matthias Finger and Jeremy Allouche shares how the Administracion Nacional de Acueductos (ANDA), meaning “National Water and Sewerage Administration.” has its own faults convincing the government to switch to privatization in their book Water Privatisation, Trans-national Corporations and the Re-regulation of the Water