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Ana Luísa Guimarães analyses the sectors closed to private initiative in the field of water. | ECO
Ana Luísa highlights: ‘Water and the sectors closed to private entities: the imperative to keep waters properly separated.’
Clarifying the constitutional and legislative framework applicable to the water sector becomes especially relevant at a time when the management of water resources is assuming a strategic role in the country’s competitiveness and resilience. In her opinion piece published in ECO, Ana Luísa Guimarães examines in depth the limits on private involvement and the need to distinguish, with precision, which activities are effectively reserved for the public sector.
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