2023-06-06 15:50:07
The Plurinational Campaign in Defense of Water for Life presented a bill in the National Congress, for Environment Day. «The day was propitious to carry out the presentation in public, but in truth we are very worried. We have been working on environmental problems for many years,” remarked the reference of the organization in Neuquén, Martha Maffei.
in conversation with RIO NEGRO RADIO, He pointed out that human beings are heading towards “collective suicide” if they do not solve the problem of water, both fresh and salty. “The problem with fresh water is its scarcity and its very small quantity. It does not reach 2% of all water, but also 70% is frozen and 20% is underground, that is, in aquifers and in groundwater. The surface water is little and is very mistreated, “said the reference.
For this reason, the United Nations affirms that it is the “worst problem that humanity has today” and urges countries to take measures to protect water resources. The draft “Law in Defense of Water for Life” would come to prioritize its vital use, compared to “modern industrial undertakings, such as the open pit mining or fracking, which use exorbitant amounts.
He explained that the initiative is proposed at the national level because, despite the fact that constitutionally the owner of the resource is the province, it ends up being “provincial officials who decide how they want to use the water,” to the detriment of the health of the public. The project intends to establish more controls for the proportionate use of water. The legislation, then, «has to do with the lack of political controls, it has to do with the scarcity of the resource, it has to do with the modes of production and social indifference.”
If penalized, would limit both the public and private sectors. «What is the difference for the water if the contamination is produced by the company or the State? What we have raised in the law is that No undertaking capable of contaminating water can be carried out first without an environmental impact study»stressed Maffei, since he indicated that These studies must be carried out by entities other than the firms interested in exploiting the resource.
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