Desigualdades hidrosociales en el Uruguay contemporáneo

Uruguay has undergone a series of radical transformations of its rural territories so far in the 21st century, hand in hand with processes of change in land use triggered by agribusi­ness activities. Both in its agricultural variant (associated with soy monocultures) and forestry (linked to the cellulose industrial complex), these changes have seriously affected both the quality and the quantity available for other uses, including the supply of water to human populations. This dynamic of the socio-ecological metabolism in rural territories has had a cumulative impact on urban areas, in particular the metropolitan area of Montevideo, which for 3 months in 2023 did not have a drinking water supply as a result of a serious drought that was seen aggravated by the serious deterioration of the water producing basins in the face of the aforementioned productive intensification. In this sense, it has been proposed that the extraction of water by

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