Nelly Avendaño from Perú

Nelly Avendaño is a water and basic public service defender in Peru. Since 2004, she has been fighting, along with the Water Defense Front, against the privatization of this basic resource. Currently she is working with her community, Huancayo, to build a new model for public water management. It will be a model that is modern, participative, and efficient. Nelly strongly questions the sale of water and natural resources as promoted in the Free Trade Agreement, signed recently between the Peruvian and the U.S. government.