Mandatos nacionales y realidades locales: análisis de la política pública del agua en la frontera amazónica

Abstract

Comparative analysis of public water policy in Colombia and Brazil and its effects on Amazonian border areas like Leticia and Tabatinga has allowed understanding power relations established between State and Society. Therefore, drinking water becomes a tension element between the administrative authorities and the different actors that need adequate water for consumption. Space that inherited social inequalities resulting from their peripheral status, from its location on the margins of State. So, our purpose is to analyze the national public water policy in Colombia and Brazil, and its effects on municipal context in Amazonian border urban areas (Leticia and Tabatinga). From an interdisciplinary perspective, based mainly on reflexive sociology and political science, as well as social mapping and conducting interviews, it reveals that the effects of national public policies for water in territory analyzed contradict its effectiveness in these local contexts.