Although the Mexican government pays great attention to water, this water policy is also highly contentious. Elena Burns, member of the National Coordinating Committee for Water for All, Water for Life, and of the National Autonomous Water Comptroller’s Office; former Deputy Director of Water Administration at CONAGUA, raises this important voice of dissent in her article:
Last December 2025, in a brutally top-down process, the Executive and Legislative branches perpetuated the slightly modified Salinas-era National Water Law (LAN) and masked the constitutional violation with a hollow General Water Law (LGA). Therefore, we, the members of the National Coordinating Committee for Agua para Todos—communities, researchers, and citizens with 13 years dedicated to establishing a General Water Law focused on sustainability, equity, and participation—analyzed what happened.
«Those of us who have spent decades striving to build good water governance find ourselves facing a water authority that is as distant, opaque, and arbitrary as ever, extremely vulnerable to pressure from special interests. But now, faced with threats from the north, more than ever we need the government to open up and coordinate with the people for the defense and proper management of water, the foundation of life in every corner of the country.»
Read in Mexico Solidarity Media (English) or in Revista Contralinea (Spanish)
