US EditionConagua: General Water Law Stops Hoarding and Overexploitation
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In recent days it has been repeated that the new General Water Law will leave the small producers without water.The argument runs fast, generates fear and is used to justify blockades.But the data show another reality: the Mexican water system has been captured decades by private interests, and the reform touches precisely those privileges.The National Waters Law of 1992 allowed to create Irrigation Districts that operate as private bodies with …
Contrary to the fear that the opposition has tried to infuse on the opinion of the new General Water Law that is scheduled to be discussed tomorrow Wednesday in the Chamber of Deputies, the director general of the National Water Commission (Conagua), Efraín Morales López, said it is totally false that they will eliminate the concession titles granted in more than 30 years and that they will only give temporary permits.
The new General Water Law includes 50 amendments and seeks to eradicate the black market in water. Deputies of Morena assure that it guarantees the human right to recourse.
Among the protests of the producers, the Commission of Hydraulic Resources, Drinking Water and Sanitation meets regarding the reform of the president Claudia Sheinbaum to the Law of Waters. PRI MP Humberto Ambriz Delgadillo criticized the law warning that it is intended to restructure the administrative model of water, with an opinion with gaps, contradictions and obligations impossible to fulfill for the three orders of government. Information …
Mexico City, Mexico.- The new General Water Law, whose ruling is already ready in the Chamber of Deputies, represents one of the most important changes in the regulation of water use in Mexico. According to the head of the National Water Commission (Conagua), Efraín Morales, this legislation seeks to end decades of hoarding, overexploitation and abusive practices in the access and distribution of water resources.
Mexico City—The reforms to the General Water Law and the changes to the National Waters Law seek to guarantee the distribution of water as a human right and to attend to the concentration of concessions in the hands of large private users, a phenomenon documented by the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM) and by various media outlets, said yesterday the deputy of Morena Carlos Palacios Rodríguez. During a positioning in San Lázaro, the Jama…
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