Avaliação: El manejo del agua en los Andes : pasado, presente y futuro – Overlooked legacies: Climate vulnerability and risk as incrementally constructed in the municipal drinking water system of Lima, Peru (1578-2017)

This the drinking water system in Lima, Peru, a rapidly expanding megacity of the Global South in a region considered to be at high risk to climate related hazards. In particular, it considers the development of Lima’s drinking water system over time from its origins in the 16th century through modernization in the early- and mid- 20th century, concluding with infrastructure investment in the era of climate change. It focuses on continuities in the spatial orientation of water infrastructure as well as long-term conflicts over its administration, to demonstrate how the vulnerabilities and inequalities in the current system are the result of a centuries-long process of accretion, rather than a system designed to serve the 21st century urban population. It concludes with a discussion of the significance of this infrastructural inertia for understandings of Lima’s water risk and vulnerability, and thus discusses the forgotten or overlooked legacies of the colonial water system for the present day.

• Historical political ecology
• Urban political ecology
• Hydrosocial territory
• Drinking water infrastructure
• Risk and vulnerability