Water Privatization in Buenos Aires

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• ET0SS (the Tripartite Agency for Sanitation Works and Services) is the federally mandated government organ that regulates the AASA concession. The national government, the provincial government of the province of Buenos Aires—which includes the 17 municipalities of Greater Buenos Aires—and the city government of Buenos Aires decide its directorate.
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• See Américo García, “La renegociación del contrato de Aguas Argentina S.A. (o cómo transformar los incumplimientos en mayores ganancias),” Realidad Económica, Vol. 159, October/November 1998.
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• The rate hike for 2003 was suspended pending further renegotiation, still underway. The annual collection of rates for AASA amounts to some $600 million pesos, which until 2002 equaled the same amount in U.S. dollars.
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• See Nana Bevillaqua, “El servicio de aguas y cloacas. Un Estado que actúa a favor de las multinacionales. Aguas Argentinas, gran negocio de la empresa a expensas de los usuarios,” Le Monde Diplomatique (edici6n Cono Sur), August 26,2001.
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