Resumen

LACABANA, MIGUEL  y  CARIOLA, CECILIA. Construyendo la participación popular y una nueva cultura del agua en Venezuela. CDC [online]. 2005, vol.22, n.59, pp.111-136. ISSN 1012-2508.

It is increasingly evident that an estrangement from the postulates prevailing during the nineties in regard to the need of more market and less state is taking place in order to rescue the importance of the state as well as the communities in solving the problems of access to drinkable water and sanitation services, regardless the fact that local and national realities are strongly different. In Venezuela, the institutionalization of water as a public asset and of community participation as the most suitable way to improve the access to those services have yielded positive outcomes: the millennium goals have been reached ten years earlier than planned.

Palabras clave : Participation; Water culture; Venezuela.