Jared Laureles
La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, November 30, 2025, p. 4
Citizen organizations warned about the attempt to “perpetuate the salinist law” in the opinion of the new General Water Law and the reform of the National Water Law (LAN), since, they considered, the document preserves “the structures and mechanisms” that for more than 30 years have allowed the overexploitation of aquifers, the contamination of bodies of water and the water marginalization of large sectors of the population.
Academics, researchers and more than 80 groups that make up the National Water for All Coordinator and the National Autonomous Water Comptroller denounced that only minimal changes were applied and proposals generated in open parliaments and public hearings organized by the Legislature were not included.
They emphasized that the project maintains a chapter “dedicated to promoting and encouraging the privatization of hydraulic works and allows the privatization of water and sanitation systems, despite the disastrous experiences throughout the country,” in addition to allowing “discretion” in the collection of fees from large concessionaires of the liquid.
