The water program is now being finalized. We will hold a forum with indigenous peoples and conduct consultations to be able to finalize it and hand it over to the state,” it was stated. As a Consultative Council, they clarified that they will seek to follow up to prevent the project from being "filed away", with the support of institutions and different involved sectors. Although there are actions to be implemented in the current state administration, it is designed to transcend administrations, as part of the Querétaro 2050 Plan. Additionally, it was mentioned that in the coming days, the water balance of the state's twelve aquifers will be presented. The completion of Querétaro's water program will follow consultations and an upcoming forum with indigenous peoples, detailed the president of the Water Consultative Council, Katia Reséndiz, who emphasized that the project proposes a route that not only contemplates drinking water but also off-network water use and the different realities of the 18 municipalities. This came after a project was presented on January 28, which was the product of over a year of work that integrated proposals, criticisms, and concerns from academics, specialists, and the public, but it was not finalized until they were certain all visions had been received. However, the main diagnosis is that the water problem lies in fragmented management among different public and private levels and sectors, so an integral route is proposed, and the next step is dialogue with indigenous peoples, so that once this happens, it can be handed over to the state for implementation. Among the actions that, personally, she considered could be the first to be executed are the strengthening of the regulatory framework with reforms to the Urban and Environmental Codes, as well as the adaptation of the National Waters Law and the General Waters Law. "And to continue with public policies that must be implemented, such as starting to normalize the use of treated water and implementing the circular economy in the State, because Querétaro has grown more than the national average and we have to think in the medium term about how we are going to supply the State's growth that is coming now with the Mexico-Querétaro Train."
