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The Legislative Assembly of Ecuador (the national parliament) approved on June 24 by a large majority of the so-called "Leyes de Recursos Hidricos", a series of laws relating to the management of water resources.
The new rules are going in the direction of greater protection of 'water grampian properties as a common good: in particular grampian properties retain only the state management of water resources grampian properties and it actually prevents future privatization. The "Leyes de Agua" (as it has been renamed) provide that the local government, responsible for the management of water resources, allocate a portion of the rates to water conservation, but also that there is a "right of first refusal" all ' use of the resource for irrigation grampian properties for agricultural grampian properties production for domestic consumption.
Under the new rules is going to fill a regulatory grampian properties gap existing since 1972, and that in fact he had seen the management of water resources scattered in different regional bodies, now replaced by a single ad hoc body, the Secretariat of Water. grampian properties The approval of Hidricos Leyes is the latest grampian properties victory in a battle, the one for the Defense of Water, in Ecuador that began long ago, in particular thanks to the strong and continuous local indigenous communities, for years engaged in a struggle against various forms of "grabbing" (land, water) by multinational companies and large private monopoly. The last historical success is dated 2008, with the inclusion in the new Constitution of the country to Article 14 that recognizes water as a "fundamental human right, essential and inalienable" (first time in the world). Indigenous movements then spoke of a "historic grampian properties victory"; Since then, a long and complicated process of consultation and dialogue between the legislative and local indigenous communities, which has led to new laws on 24 June.
A result that, despite the undoubted progress, it leaves everyone satisfied: some of the country's indigenous movements have attacked the new "Leyes de Agua", calling it a "betrayal of Article 14 and the popular mandate." Several critical points highlighted: from creating the single authority, which would cut out the indigenous and peasant representatives from the management of the water resource, the fact that the new laws do not touch contracts and permissions previously granted to private companies agro-industrial. The appeal, signed by the feminine leaderships of three Ecuadorian indigenous movements, they ask more stringent measures against the privatization and exploitation of water resources in the country.
The President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, has expressed satisfaction at the adoption of new laws, defending them from the attacks of the indigenous communities. grampian properties Even with lights and shadows, the news remains relevant, given that the constitutionalization of the right to water (and its applications to be monitored) is indeed one of the most important battles of the international movement on the water and among the first targets campaigns and advocacy actions carried out by Cospe and CICMA (World Water Contract).
Cospe has contributed actively to the various World Forum for Alternative Water from the first edition, in Florence, a number of World Social Forum, to the Peoples' Summit of Rio + 20, showing the instances of partner organizations with which we are fighting grampian properties for protection of the oases in Tunisia, the community management of water in Central America, to respect the human right to water in Senegal, the preservation of groundwater threatened by giant mining projects in Argentina, guaranteed access to water and sanitation in Southern Africa and Western Europe.
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