Overview
- Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies passed the new Ley General de Aguas and related changes to the existing law by 324–118 with 2 abstentions, sending the package to the Senate.
- The bill bars transfer of concession rights but empowers Conagua to reassign preferential and succession-related rights and issue new titles on short timelines, alongside recognition of community water systems and an extended window to seek prórrogas.
- Debate in San Lázaro turned confrontational as opposition lawmakers decried insufficient consultation with indigenous and Afro‑Mexican communities, while tractor caravans of producers pressed for changes outside the chamber.
- President Claudia Sheinbaum defended the overhaul as necessary to curb hoarding and corruption and to guarantee the human right to water, as critics warned of centralized control and enforcement concerns.
- Peru’s Congress approved President José Jerí’s one‑day travel to Quito on December 12 with 81 votes in favor, for a presidential meeting and the XVI Peru–Ecuador Binational Cabinet focused on organized crime, border integration, trade, energy, defense and shared water resources, with the president authorized to dispatch remotely while abroad.