Writing in Jacobin, Carter Vance says local resistance to water privatisation can open “wider democratic possibilities and mobilizations.” In Bolivia, “the privatization attempt generated such mass opposition and sustained protest over a four-month period that the government eventually backed down from the move and turned over operation of the city’s water supply to a coalition of community leaders. Concerns about water contamination and local control of water supplies have also driven protest movements elsewhere in Latin America. Canadian-owned mining companies are a particularly common target; in the last few years mass protests against companies like Eldorado Gold and Eco Oro have occurred in Colombia, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and the Dominican Republic, as well as other parts of the world including Slovakia, Greece, Romania, and Israel.”