TY - JOUR AU - Lehne, Florian PY - 2019/01/03 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Caimanes and the Water – Infinite Legal Struggles about a Finite Good JF - Future of Food: Journal on Food, Agriculture and Society JA - FOFJ VL - 3 IS - 1 SE - Reports & Analysis DO - UR - https://thefutureoffoodjournal.com/index.php/FOFJ/article/view/125 SP - 94-100 AB - This report is intended to shed more light on the ongoing water struggle in Caimanes, a smallurban area in the central northern area of Chile, neighbouring Latin America’s biggest tailingsdam. Undoubtedly, the water in Caimanes is running out and the conflict between the opponentsof the dam and its owner, a multinational copper enterprise, is getting more and moreattention by the national and also international media. In the discussion a judgment of the ChileanSupreme Court from last October plays a central role, because it is said to have granted thepeople from Caimanes their right to water. After a short introduction with some details aboutCamaines and the tailings from the dam El Mauro, the key points of this judgment shall be outlined.The final part of the report is dedicated to various institutional problems of the Chileanresources law and policy that can become virulent for the water supply and the environmentalwell-being of many other urban areas in the industrialized north of Chile. ER -