Finally, They Begin the Socialization of the New Chapala-Guadalajara Aqueduct

“The lake is not a tinaco”: Coastal peoples denounce that they did not consult them about the new aqueduct in ChapalaPhoto: Zona Docs *This note was made by Zona Docs, part of the media alliance of the Red de Periodistas de a Pie. Here you can read the original. Representatives of native, environmental and academic communities warned about the environmental and social damage that would cause a new aqueduct to extract more water from Lake Chapala…

Guadalajara, Jalisco. The Secretariat of Integral Water Management of the Government of Jalisco has already begun socializing the project to build a substitute aqueduct to bring water from Lake Chapala. The owner of the unit, Ernesto Marroquín Álvarez, explained, before the critical voices about the work, that the works will not start yet, because hardly the project was tendered. Therefore, there are still no environmental permits or building pe…