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Water Crisis El Salvador

The law on the right to water reaches Parliament, "people's lives are at stake" warns Cardinal Rosa Chavez

| Water Crisis El Salvador
FIDES Salvadoran Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez, in his usual Sunday press conference, said he hopes that the initiative of the water law that the government will present contains the progress made in the proposal supported and elaborated by the Catholic Church and environmental organizations. "...

U.S.-Backed ANDA Appointment Threatens the Salvadoran People’s Water Resources

| Water Crisis El Salvador
CISPES On September 24, the government of Nayib Bukele named a new official to head the National Aqueduct and Sewer Administration (ANDA), the autonomous institution charged with the management, treatment, and distribution of water resources nationwide. During the swearing in ceremony, Pres...

EL SALVADOR - Water recognized as a public good and human right, the satisfaction of the Church

| Water Crisis El Salvador
Agenzia Fides San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador unanimously approved, with 78 votes in favor and no votes against, the reform of the Constitution of the Republic to recognize water as a public good and human right. According to El Salvador's legislation, afte...

PRESS RELEASE: Citizen´s proposal for a general water law in El Salvador

| Water Crisis El Salvador
San Salvador, February 6th, 2020 The different sectors of civil society and the popular organizations hereby represented recognize water as a source of life and a public good, whose access constitutes a fundamental human right of humanity. We also recognize that without sufficient and good quali...

Civil society presents a proposal for the Water Law in the Legislative Assembly

| Water Crisis El Salvador
Carlos Hernandez - Contrapunto Civil society organizations continue to pressure the Legislative Assembly to approve a General Water Law that would benefit the majority of the Salvadoran population. Representatives of the National Alliance against the Privatization of Water, accompanied by ...

National Alliance Against the Privatization of Water “Water is not for sale, we care for it and defend it

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PRESS RELEASE : National Alliance against the Privatization of Water in El Salvador  “On the Occasion of the Global Climate Strike” “Without Water, There Is No Future” On the occasion of the Global Climate Strike, we as the National Alliance Against the Privatization of Water express the f...

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