Water sovereignty from the Andes to Palestine: On the global expansion of the national Israeli water company to Argentina and the formation of transnational solidarity

By Miriam Bartelmann. Mekorot, the national water company of Israel, is increasing its presence in Argentina through agreements over water management in ten provinces. This includes all provinces along the Andes, where struggles around water are linked to the extraction of resources. These struggles are often led by Indigenous populations and urban activists affected by water shortages and pollution through extractivist corporations. United by the opposition to the loss of autonomy over water, groups connect transnationally, learning from the experience of water apartheid in the occupied Palestinian territories and resist the loss of sovereignty over their water resources.