The research titled "Water, territory and power in the Andes: the struggles of indigenous communities in the Andes of the north of Ecuador" is a study on the effects of climate change in the Ecuadorian Andes and the investment of agricultural capital.

Professor Pablo Ortiz, coordinator of the research group on the State and Development, analyzed how the dairy sector and agriculture in the area of Pesillo have altered the water situation, including access difficulties for human consumption or watering.

This research was presented in the international conference "L'eau dans les Amériques: Regards Croisés en Sciences Sociales", in Université Sorbonne, Nouvelle, Paris

"Water and its administration seem to provide clues to open spaces for coordination and organizational strengthening, challenging the formal scheme of the State regarding the management of water resources." To what extent has such a change in constitutional-legal paradigm since 2008 become a substantial alteration of the relations of power, of social structures and of fragile, ethnocentric and monocultural institutions? ", says Ortiz.

For this problem, Professor Ortiz proposes to explore several elements present in the history of the Kayambi to analyze the responses of indigenous organizations on water management and propose an epistemic and intercultural and interdisciplinary dialogue, he said.

Other topics during the event were: communities and common goods; laws and the right to water; water in cities (governance); alternative management models; emergency of alternative water policies; and water conflicts and water knowledge