Until the end of 2022, the BDE will grant the municipalities credits for $290 million for drinking water and sanitation works.
The Government chose the Mulaló parish (Cotopaxi) for the start of the socialization of the draft of the new Water Resources Law (water law) under the world water day.
President Guillermo Lasso, accompanied by several of his collaborators, assured that his administration will not allow the water privatizationand added that the proposal -which will be submitted to the Assembly in December- aims to improve the quality of the vital liquid for human consumption, simplify procedures for its use and reduce its contamination.
“It is inadmissible that the current Law has been made without consulting all the actors involved, as the Constitutional Court has pointed out!, exclaimed the President, and rejected what he called “rumors and false news, which we already know where they come from ”, he expressed.
To ensure that the new draft does not have gaps in social participation, the regime proposes four axes: co-responsibility, representativeness, governability and the guarantee of rights.
It is planned to convene workshops in 38 cities where users, associations and social organizations will be able to contribute with suggestions.
While the Executive was making this announcement in Cotopaxi, in Quito, CONAIE (headed by Leonidas Iza) marched to the Assembly for the world water daywhere he delivered a proposal of principles and mandates of the Law.
Meanwhile, it was announced that until the end of 2022, the Development Bank of Ecuador (BDE) will grant municipalities $290 million in credits for construction works. drinking water and sanitation that will benefit 2.6 million Ecuadorians. (SC)
