Guadalajara’s Water at Risk of Privatization.
In the Guadalajara metropolitan area live 5,110,000 people, and at least 1,200,000 subscribers are users of the Intermunicipal System of Potable Water and Sewerage (SIAPA). After the conurbations of Mexico City and Monterrey, Guadalajara’s is the third most populated metropolitan area in the country. And the Governor of Jalisco, Jesús Pablo Lemus Navarro, is seen to be very eager to close deals with private companies that, he assures, are willing to invest in some SIAPA projects to resolve the serious health crisis represented, for several months now, by the supply of dirty, unsanitary, and foul-smelling water that millions of people in the Guadalajara conurbation suffer.
