▲ The population must be consulted to reform the National Water Law, said Secretary Alicia Bárcena, at the beginning of the forums in the matter.Fourth photo
Daniel González Delgadillo
La Jornada newspaper
Tuesday, January 28, 2025, p. 11
To protect and support water management, Alicia Bárcena, the head of the Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat), said yesterday that appropriate legal frameworks must be created to order more than 583 thousand concessions granted nationwide, to clean up the contaminated basins and develop the technification of irrigation districts, among other actions.
At the beginning of the first of the 13 forums Transforming the water regime in Mexico, The official said it is necessary to undertake this type of measures from democratic consensus, since without them We cannot carry out great tasks
raised for this six-year period, such as the restoration and sanitation of the Lerma-Santiago, Tula and Atoyac rivers.
All this is oriented to a country vision, a transformative vision in which water ceases to be seen as merchandise and that we can overcome that neoliberal vision of the management of our natural resources to move on to a more humanistic and participatory vision
he reiterated to representatives of the Legislative Power, academics, entrepreneurs, agricultural users, social organizations, water service providers and citizens.
Among the main objectives of the forums, he highlighted, is to consult the multiple sectors of the population on the bases to create a general water law and reform the National Water Law. A very important issue is how much water will really be able to get back through these political agreements with the irrigation districts and the private sector
he pointed out.
He mentioned that during the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, which he attended, the needs of the unified governance frames, encoded solutions based on the modernization of infrastructure and technological innovation and updated normative frameworks aimed at the order in the ordering in the ordering in the ordinance in the Permits and procedures.
Meanwhile, Efraín Morales López, director of the National Water Commission, organizer of the forums, highlighted the importance of a new regulatory framework to combat the illegal use of water resource by strengthening the authorities, as in the revision of transmissions or transmissions Changes of use and guarantee quotas, based on the issuance of the General Water Law and the reforms to the National Water Law.
After the signatures of the National Water Plan and the National Forest, Forests and Mangroves Agreement to link it with the National Agreement for Human Right to Water and Sustainability, last November, said that more than 60 thousand concessions of concessions have been reviewed so far 583 thousand that exist.
After the promulgation of the National Water Law, during the neoliberal period, practically the entire liquid of the country to individuals, and from 1992 to 2003, the number of permits went from 2,600 to 360 thousand.
