Ending the privatisation of drinking water.
From putting an end to the privatisation of drinking water, because it is not a commodity but a human right, to rehabilitating rivers “more than an environmental measure, it is a cornerstone to guarantee the right to water and promote a sustainable life”, was raised at Mexico’s Third State Water Forum 2025, entitled “Transforming the Water Sector” in Tamaulipas.
In his message, Governor Américo Villarreal Anaya (Morena) affirmed that his administration is working to end and reverse the “neoliberal paradigm of subjecting the resource to the market as if it were a commodity” and reiterated his support for a fundamental change in the model for the use, distribution and conservation of resources, as proposed by President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.
“It is a question of putting an end to the privatisation perspective,” he said, while considering that “water should truly belong to the nation and serve the cause of justice, with access for human consumption as a priority and its equitable availability for national development”.
In the Polyforum of the state capital, Governor Villarreal Anaya affirmed that “in Tamaulipas, in the northeast, as in all regions of Mexico, there is much to be done to contribute to the successful implementation of the axes of the National Water Plan, one of the priorities of which is to regulate concessions and reverse overexploitation”.
He also highlighted the Technification Plan of Irrigation District 026, in which Tamaulipas is participating in the first national phase, and the construction of the second line of the aqueduct in Ciudad Victoria, a project that has been awaited for more than 30 years.
He also referred to the major sewage treatment works. “I have instructed the Secretariat of Water Resources to look after the rural and ejido communities, to rehabilitate the wells, to re-equip them and to improve the supply tanks in these communities so that there is a fair distribution of water.”
