@article{Rowlands_2018, title={The indigenous water shortage: a social construction of inequalities in the Loa River Basin}, url={https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/atma/article/view/2612}, DOI={10.17561/at.11.2612}, abstractNote={The aim of this study is to analyze the administrative processes and territorial reconfiguration on which is based the social construction of water shortage currently affecting the indigenous peoples of the Loa River basin. More particularly, it will seek to understand how the indigenous productive bases have been undermined by public water policies for the benefit of industrial, mining and sanitation enterprises. In a first part, the paper will evaluate from a temporal perspective the expropriation, registration and grating or water rights processes in the Loa basin. In a second part, it will focus on the territorialisation of water rights related to the emergence of ecological inequalities. Finally, the study will examine how this situation is reflected in five communities in the basin of the Loa River<em>.</em>}, number={11}, journal={Agua y Territorio / Water and Landscape}, author={Rowlands, Jorge}, year={2018}, month={Apr.}, pages={109–122} }