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Explain Bolivia's Water war.

• Bolivia is a poor country in a Latin America. The water was refers to a people movements.
• Which began after the government had given permission to a  multinational company to control municipal water supply.
• Many people received a monthly water bill of Rs 1000 and the average income of a country is just Rs 5000 a month.
• They were widespread protests against water privatization by FEDECOR movement was an organisation supported by local professionals engineers, environmentalists, farmers, factory workers, middle class students and had the lacking of the socialist party.
• When the people went on a strike the government imposed martial law. But the people forced the MNC officials to flee the city and made the government to accept all their demands. Thus the contract of MNC was cancelled and water supply was restored to the municipality. This was known as Bolivia's water war.