Overview
- Lawmakers in both chambers approved the General Water Law and related reforms and sent them to the Executive, moving the overhaul toward publication in the official gazette in the coming days.
- Key provisions bar sales or exchanges of concessions between private parties, assign the State as sole regulator, create a catalog of water responsibilities, penalize illegal transfers, and task Conagua with curbing concentration of access.
- Interior Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez said the framework will bring support and certainty to productive zones and impose order on water management, with ongoing forums to address sector concerns.
- Farmer and transport groups that led nationwide demonstrations announced a “strategic recess,” saying they will work under the new framework for now but could resume protests if they see harmful decisions.
- Agricultural leaders in Sonora warn the changes could let authorities control water from private wells if plantings are not justified, and activists in Yucatán and an opposition senator argue the law threatens indigenous communities and expands state control over people.