The repercussions continue in the environmental and agricultural world of the summary sent by the Comptroller General of the Republic against the General Directorate of Waters (DGA) for not having prevented the depletion of water in four years.
This time, it was the turn of Greenpeace, through its Campaigns coordinator, Stephanie Gonzalezwho was concerned about this report, specifying that this “demonstrates what the communities and the environmental organizations themselves have denounced, regarding the fact that the water problem in Chile is not only due to drought and climate change, but that it has to do with how water is managed.
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“The Comptroller’s Office finds very serious facts, such as the fact that for the 101 basins in Chile, there are only two published plans. There is no information, nor sufficient monitoring stations that allow us to know the quantity and quality of both groundwater and rivers. This, added to other things that we have evidenced through requests for public information, which indicate that there are powers of the General Directorate of Waters that it has never used, such as suspending the use of water rights when the source is being affected ” , he complemented.
Along these same lines, González indicated that “this requires concrete actions, citizens no longer need excuses associated with the fact that there are no budgets, that there are not enough civil servants, since today the few tools that exist in public bodies to manage in a better way the waters in Chile, they are not being used, and as if it were worse, there are serious non-compliances with respect to the functions, as is the case of the DGA, at a time when 50% of the country’s communes are under water scarcity decrees”.
Finally, it urges the Executive to seek immediate measures to repair the matter. “Our call is to the Government to implement immediate measures, and not respond through excuses and use the powers that the law allows public bodies today, which will allow progress in this matter and at the same time, see that there are very important elements such as the consecration of the human right to water, the guarantee of the balance of the ecosystems, which are things that we must advance urgently”, he concluded.
