Bolivia | Established an Agreement with Chile on Cooperation Mechanism to Manage Shared Waters

Bolivia has established an agreement with Chile on cooperation mechanism to manage shared waters, a project that aims of strengthening bilateral cooperation, preserving high Andean ecosystems and jointly facing the challenges of climate change.

According to Vision 360, a Bolivian digital media outlet based in La Paz, the two South American countries agreed to create a binational mechanism for cooperation and management of shared waters during the IV Meeting of the Binational Roundtable on Transboundary Water Resources held in the Bolivian capital La Paz.

During the meeting, a work agenda was also consolidated that gives continuity to the technical process for the delimitation of transboundary basins, with special attention to the pilot basin of the Lauca River, a 255 - kilometre binational waterway originating in the Cotacotani lagoons within Chile’s Lauca National Park crossing the Andes into the Bolivian Altipiano before terminating in the Coipasa salt flat.

The governments of the two countries resumed relations after years of tensions stemming from disputes over the sea and water of the Silala, a river arising from springs in Bolivia and following naturally westward into Chile, at the International Court of Justice.

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia, Carlos Paz, stressed that the shared basins should be conceived as spaces for cooperation and strengthening mutual trust, while the Consul General of Chile in La Paz, Roberto Ruiz, highlighted the importance of consolidating the Binational Table as a permanent mechanism for political and technical articulation.

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