Lilian Hernandez Osorio
La Jornada Newspaper
Monday, December 1, 2025, p. 5
If the opinion of the water reform package is approved, the “black market” of this vital liquid will end, which will allow a more orderly and transparent concession system, with full certainty and zero tolerance for corruption, said the director of the National Water Commission (Conagua), Efraín Morales López.
He celebrated that the document is now ready for discussion and possible approval in the Chamber of Deputies; He said that water will no longer be a resource that has been a business for some individuals at the expense of the rights of the majority.
In a video message broadcast on his official
Given the controversy that has arisen around these amendments, and that will give rise to the general water law, he recalled that the current norm, which today celebrates 33 years of being published, has allowed the concentration of several concession titles in one or many people, and with it a large amount of water, while communities and small and medium producers do not have that resource.
He considered that if this ruling is approved, “the land-water binomial is also guaranteed, which is inseparable so that properties with concession titles can be inherited or sold, and the same volume, the same time for them to be concessioned, and the same use are respected.” Also, he clarified, the community systems that operate in the country in a traditional way are recognized and facilitate access to liquid for the towns, especially the most unprotected.
Despite the blockades made last week by peasant organizations and producers, in which according to the head of the Ministry of the Interior, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, there was “political motivation” linked to the intention to prevent this package of reforms from being approved, the director of Conagua pointed out that the changes are the result of the dialogue and listening that the federal government has had with the various social and productive sectors of the country, which were also applied in the Legislative Branch by opening forums for the different sectors that strengthen the initiative.
For this reason, he thanked the president of the Political Coordination Board of San Lázaro, Ricardo Monreal (Morena), for his openness and for “the disposition shown during the process”, since this package of changes reveals the courage of the President to transform the water regime in the country, and above all, because it seeks to “end abuse, hoarding, overexploitation and guarantee the viability of this precious natural resource for the people of Mexico.”
