Corporatization and the Right to Water in Colombia : Routledge : 9781032129211 : 1032129212 : 27 May 2024 : This book explores how conflicts around access to water shape cities, citizenship and infrastructures by tracing how water is commodified and controlled by the Public Enterprises of Medellìn (EPM), one of the most successful publicly owned utility companies in the global South. Why are water inequalities dramatically increasing in Medellìn, a city that is located in an area of bountiful water resources and owns a successful, established utility company? This book explains this paradoxical situation by weaving together two central threads. The first is a critical historical analysis of the political, economic and ecological conditions that enabled the city's utility company to grow and expand internationally, and the second is a rich account of the everyday practices and struggles of residents in low-income areas to secure access to water and demand citizenship rights. The EPM is