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With critical services like water, electricity and sewerage networks severely disrupted, officials were unable to communicate with each other, coordinate help from the government in Santiago or keep the public up-to-date with what was happening.
But sewerage networks and waste water treatment works are not designed to remove these sort of items and, unfortunately, more and more are ending up in our rivers and beaches".
But in this contest, Mr. Gilani is counting on something more temporal to tempt voters: the city's impressive array of new highway overpasses, bridges and sewerage networks, totaling hundreds of millions of dollars, that he built during his time in office.
The simplest of textile mills could not function without foreign-made parts; farmers needed imported pumps to run their irrigation systems; and the government could not mend the war-damaged telephone, electricity, road, water and sewerage networks without material from abroad.
But modern flush toilets, which use 10 times the average daily drinking water requirement, are hopelessly unsuited to countries with poor access to water or sewerage networks.
Designs had to be hygienic, sustainable, cheap to operate, and capable of working "off-grid" - without connections to water, electricity, or sewerage networks.
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The critical point is that a fit-for-purpose sewerage network is essential for the city's prosperity and wellbeing.
Joseph Bazalgette's sewerage network, built between 1859 and 1875, runs for about 21,000km (13,000 miles) underneath the city.
In cities around the world, millions of people rely on an intermittent piped supply or are not connected to a water or sewerage network at all.
"They have to complete the sanitary sewerage network and connect the homes so that [they] don't spill into the Estero," he said.
He says the protests are necessary to make sure the loans are spent on the unglamorous work of improving the sewerage network in the poorest neighbourhoods.
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