![Mexico: New Water Law Questionned, [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css="" bb_tab_container=""] Bureaucracy and federal centralism hinder access to water](https://blue-community.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/ITESO_AlfonsoBenayas-864x467.jpg "Mexico: New Water Law Questionned 1")
Bureaucracy and federal centralism hinder access to water.
Mexico’s new General Water Law, whose decree was published on December 11, 2025, in the Official Gazette of the Federation along with new reforms to the National Water Law, aims to combat water hoarding and guarantee the human right to water and sanitation. However, it also endorses greater control by the federal executive branch over water concessions, leading to increased bureaucracy and discretion in granting permits for its use.
This and other conclusions are reached in the third edition of Radar of Democracy and Justice , a publication of the Laboratory for the Rule of Law and Public Impact of the Department of Sociopolitical and Legal Studies of ITESO (Dsoj), which analyzes the details of the new legal framework that regulates the use of water in Mexico.
Read on ITESCO, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara (Spanish) or in Google English
