Ecuador’s Capital Faces Water Crisis Amid Government and Local Leadership Failures

Quito, Ecuador's capital, finds itself grappling with a critical water shortage following the rupture of a major pipeline on Thursday. This failure in basic infrastructure has plunged approximately 400,000 residents into an emergency, exposing troubling cracks in governance that reverberate far beyond the city.Why Has a Basic Necessity Become a Political Battlefield?The Ministry of Environment, Water and Ecological Transition promptly rebuked the Municipality of Quito for failing to prevent this outage and called for strict adherence to mandated contingency plans. Their statement was unequivocal: the local authorities have shirked their responsibility to provide essential services transparently and effectively.Yet rather than...