Rosa Icela Rodríguez, head of the Ministry of the Interior (Segob) thanked the Legislature for the approval of the Water Law.
This Friday morning and on behalf of the president Claudia Sheinbaumthe person in charge of internal policy was questioned about the text approved by both chambers in less than 24 hours.
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“Thank the Chamber of Deputies, legislators, also in the case of the Senate of the Republic, thank the approval of the law also to the legislators, legislators of the Congress of the Union, who made it possible for there to be a National Water Law,” he indicated.
At the same time, he recalled that both the head of the Executive and the director of the National Water Commission (Conagua) Several articles of the Law are important, which provide support and certainty for productive activities, as well as avoiding “the concentration in a few hands in some regions of the country, and to put order precisely in everything related to the water issue“.
Rodríguez Velázquez took the opportunity to Also thank the groups that participated and gave their opinions on the topicincluding agricultural producers who, at the time, left the table but whose proposals were listened to and taken into account.
They approve the Water Law
In less than 24 hours after it was approved by the Chamber of Deputies, and without parliamentary procedures, Morena and its allies from the Green Party (PVEM) and the Labor Party (PT) approved, in general, with 85 votes in favor and 36 against the new Water Law.
Morena and allies in the Senate managed to have the minutes sent by the federal deputies discussed directly in the Plenary and thus avoided the parliamentary process of being approved in committees, which generated a clash with the Opposition.
The minutes reached the Senate and were immediately uploaded to the Plenary for discussion and approval because the president of the Political Coordination Board of the Upper House, Adán Augusto López, assured that they were “satisfied” with what was approved in San Lázaro.
While In the seats of Morena, posters read with the slogan “Water is life, not a commodity.”the PRI bench responded with phrases like: “Morena betrays the peasants,” “No to water reform”, “Waters with the water!” and even a provocateur “If Zapata were alive… he wouldn’t be here with this fucking law.”
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While the PAN hung a banner in the plenary session that read “Expropriating water is condemning the countryside to poverty and lack of food for the people.”
In article 22, the reform establishes that the granting of a concession or assignment will be subject to the provisions of the Law and its regulations and will take into account the average annual availability of water, which will be reviewed at least every 2 years.