Colombians Build Support for a Constitutional Referendum for Water

Colombia’s popular movement to reform the nation’s constitution by including explicit protection for the human right to water took a giant leap forward last week. The proposed reform suffered a near-setback when members of Congress, at the behest of Chief Executive Alvaro Uribe, proposed sweeping changes to the text of the reform. But on May 26, after intervention by a representative of the popular movement, the Congress voted 66 to 26 to sustain the original text of the reform, allowing it to move forward through the congressional process.

Colombians Build Support for a Constitutional Referendum for Water