Jared Laureles
La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, December 5, 2025, p. 4
The water laws that were approved yesterday in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate do not contain “any article” that establishes an obligation or mechanism to confront hoarding and overexploitation, or to guarantee the human right to water, warned the citizen organizations Agua Para Todos and the National Autonomous Comptroller’s Office for Water.
Academics, researchers and more than 90 groups that comprise them pointed out that despite the reserve package in San Lázaro, “not even a comma” was moved to the amendment and the “perpetuation” of the Salinas National Water Law was insisted upon, through the elaboration of a “General Water Law without enforceable effects”, which fails to comply with the constitutional mandate of guaranteeing equity, sustainability and citizen participation.
“The National Water for All Coordinator and the Autonomous Water Comptrollers denounce the haphazard process in which Conagua (National Water Commission) imposed express approval of its legislative initiative, without public review and without moving a single period,” the organizations stressed.
They explained that although the Water Reserve Fund will replace the previous Water Banks, the “reallocation” of volumes is maintained without having to reduce the over-concessioning.
They reiterated that the human right to liquid is not guaranteed either, since no obligation is mentioned to Conagua regarding the management of national waters and the federal budget, nor to the drinking liquid systems, in terms of priority distribution.
Furthermore, they pointed out that no reform was achieved that could “close the door to Conagua’s corrupt practices in the management of concessions.”
