Draft Water Bill Threatens Mexico's Biodiversity Javier Flores - La Jornada | |
go to original March 25, 2015 |
The public response to what had seemed to be imminent approval of the General Water Law by the full Chamber of Deputies shows that this is one of Mexican society's most sensitive and worrisome issues. Among these reactions, the accusations made individually and collectively by Mexican scientists and the joint statement made by the presidents of the Metropolitan Autonomous University, Salvador Vega y León; Guadalajara University, Tonatiuh Bravo Padilla; and Nacional Autonomous University of Mexico, José Narro Robles, who called for "(...) a broad, plural and inclusive debate in which all sectors of the country can take part."
Sensitive to these accusations (and perhaps in the face of the approaching electoral process [June 2015]), the Political Coordination Committee of the Lower Chamber, through its president, Deputy Manlio Fabio Beltrones, this weekend asked the respective committees "(...) to consider the proposals of various voices and stakeholders interested in this regulation and to take the time necessary to deliberate about it."
This request indicates that the possibility of Fast Track approval has been set aside and opens a period of extensive, nationwide discussion.
Aspects of the draft legislation are troubling. First, it repeatedly refers to scientific research and technological development on water, for example, as one of the powers of the Federation and as a function of the states, municipalities and the Federal District, but inside the vagueness and lack of detail that characterize the draft of this document, the National Water Commission (CONAGUA) appears as the agency governing these tasks.
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