Women, Mobilization and the Revitalization of Water Resources: The Case of North-Eastern Brazil
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The objective of this paper is to present a case study on the mobilization of women from the MMTR (Rural Women Workers Movement of Sertão Central) toward the revitalization of a small river in the semi-arid region of the Pernambuco state. Since the water problem is so closely related to the lives of women and they had been noticing that the only and most important water source was disappearing, they decided to save it. Such an initiative shows the absence of governmental action to solve the problem and the importance as well as the strength of women´s mobilization at the grassroots level.
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