Along with PRI deputy Mario Calzada, the National Water Commission (Conagua) reported that a "very famous soft drink company" held multiple water concession titles, but with irregularities in payments. "We detected that there are 18 titles with a difference of 2 million, 842 thousand, 145 cubic meters of water that do not record any payment," said Efraín Morales, head of Conagua, during this Monday's morning conference. In this soft drink company, there are also 10 titles that overexploit the concession by almost a million cubic meters and do not comply with payments, while at least 42 concessions do not have a meter. "Either they are not using it and have hoarded it, or they are using it and not paying for the service. The framework of the new Law allows Conagua to issue a regulation to properly request it with the related mechanisms and limits the guarantee quotas so that the unused water returns to Conagua and is distributed to those who really need it," he added. What did Sheinbaum say about the soft drink company that doesn't pay for water? Efraín Morales added that the soft drink company has a debt of up to 234 million pesos, so last week it paid 52 million and they are in contact with Conagua. "The existing Water Law was made in 1992, which allows water to be commercialized, that is, to turn water into a commodity. From then on, many concession titles of this type were granted, how many were granted in each six-year term," said President Claudia Sheinbaum on this matter. The head of state explained that instead of a single concession title, they had 10 and it was transferred to avoid paying for water. In addition, neither Sheinbaum nor Conagua disclosed the name of the soft drink company because the procedure is still ongoing. Conagua also exposes a water bottling company Another of the cases taken up by Conagua is that of a water bottling company where there were no meters, in addition to irregular constructions in a federal zone. This bottling company had three concession titles, but only one was paid for. The debt was 43.88 million pesos. However, the company also approached Conagua to settle the debt and deposited 23.5 million pesos. Regarding payments for the right to water use, Efraín Morales detailed that last year 30 billion 635 million pesos were received and the goal for 2026 is to reach 37 billion pesos.
