Un Mundo Mejor — March for Water, Life, and Dignity
On 16 September 2025 more than 100,000 people filled the streets of Cuenca to defend Ecuador’s watersheds against extractivist mining. Organisers, water boards, Indigenous nations, and neighbours marched to protect water, land, and the right to design futures grounded in collective care.
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Grass-roots organisations, Indigenous nations, and water boards from Azuay, Cañar, and Morona Santiago converged to demand the suspension of the Loma Larga (Quimsacocha) mining project and other concessions planned for páramo ecosystems. Extractivism jeopardises the headwaters that supply more than 600,000 residents, and communities refuse to see Cuenca’s rivers turned into sacrifice zones.
- Context: Loma Larga and allied concessions target páramo territories where springs feeding Cuenca and the southern Andes originate.
- Urgency: Cuenca’s people insist that water for life is non-negotiable; allowing mining would place drinking-water and farming livelihoods at irreparable risk.
- Commitment: We join neighbours and territorial organisations to defend water, resist extractivism, and cultivate design practices that honour social, environmental, urban, political, and economic justice.
Voices from the March
Yesterday we showed that Cuenca is a national and international example: we say enough to extractivism. We are tired of watching our environment destroyed to enrich a few, of being used like puppets by companies and governments that ignore environmental, social, urban, political, and economic dimensions. Water is life, and life is not negotiable. #somoselquintorio — Christian Corral
March Gallery
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Let’s raise awareness about extractive injustices in our cities. If you are organising, researching, or documenting struggles in defence of water and territory, reach out—together we can amplify your story.
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