the 60 year old mother of five kids became one of the icons of the “water war”. The photo of her confronting a police man in full battle dress went around the world and Rosa became a symbol of the peoples fight against
the privatisation of water. “They had stolen our industries, our railways, our airline and our natural resources already. When they tried to privatise our water too, we had to react and fight.Water is Life. You can’t privatise
life”, she remembers.