Overview
- Deputies launched four days of public hearings to gather proposals on the presidential initiative to overhaul the National Water Law.
- Commission leaders said they will hear all sectors, then proceed to a timetable for the committee’s draft opinion and a floor debate.
- Former Conagua director José Luis Luege warned that substituting “expedir” with “participar” on concessions would centralize authority in Conagua and he proposed edits to keep basin agencies issuing titles.
- Organizations in the southern session urged legal recognition of rivers and other waters as living entities with rights and demanded no projects proceed in those basins without consultation.
- The hearings follow delivery of citizen ‘Parlamentos Abiertos’ resolutions and the president’s acknowledgment of errors in Conagua’s draft, as some agricultural groups mobilize over claims about inheritance and transfers of water rights.