Deputies believe that the executive is seeking to privatize the role of the water director | National

This Thursday, November 29, the project in favor of investments of the Ministry of Economy will be debated in the Chamber of Deputies, which includes changes to the supervisory role of the General Directorate of the Water (DGA). ) of the Department of Public Works.

MP Alejandra Sepúlveda of the Socialist Regional Socialist Federation (FRVS) and MP Daniel of the Communist Party (PC) claim that this privatizes the action of the DGA and allows individuals to stay with rights to use water.

Nunez pointed out that an "audit function to which the Directorate General of Water is privatized and is entrusted to a private expert (…) which will be audited on the ground but will be paid by the applicant for the right to water, that is to say generally large agribusiness or mining companies. "

Sepúlveda stated that" c & # The transfer is made to private companies and those who want all the investment, those who want to become owners of these waters, are the ones who make the report so that it is operational from an environmental point of view, does not correspond. This gives the cat the butchery . "