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DAM-L Bolivia: Urgent Action Needed: Stop Water Export Law (fwd)



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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 18:24:07 -0600
Subject: Bolivia: Urgent Action Needed: Stop Water Export Law
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Right to Water (right-to-water@iatp.org)    Posted: 11/13/2001  By  svarghese@iatp.org	
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Message from Oscar Olivera, Omar Fernandez, Samuel Soria and Gabriel Herbas
of the Coalition in Defense of Water and Life, Cochabamba, Bolivia

Please send Faxes to the Bolivian Goverment at the numbers given below.

Dear Colleagues,

The Bolivian government, taking advantage of the fact that the popular
movement in Bolivia is currently fighting numerous claims, is pushing the
ratification of the Water Export Law in the highly sensitive zone of the
Department of Potosi. The problem lies in that this project is situated in
a border region where neither technical nor environmental impact
assessments have been conducted, nor assessments of the social effects on
the surrounding communities.

The ratification of this law responds to the speculative interest of a
private company whose only objective is profit, the suspicion being that
behind this company exists a transnational corporation. We ask that your
organizations send letters to the Bolivian Parliament indicating that this
law would be setting disastrous precedents for the region and the right
that communities have to the use of this resource, in order to highlight
that other countries have opposed this type of law due to the strategic
characteristics of this resource.

The Water Export Law, as you will see in the attached document, has already
been approved by the Chamber of Senators and tomorrow it enters the Chamber
of Deputies, which is why we request that you express your solidarity with
the utmost urgency.

Fraternally,

For the Coalition in Defense of Water and Life:

Oscar Olivera
Omar Fernandez
Samuel Soria
Gabriel Herbas

Phones and Fax to the Bolivian Goverment

Camara de Diputados
Fax: (591-2) 2201921
Fax: (591-2) 2202932

Camara de Sendadores
Fax: (591-2)2204028

Ministerio de Gobierno
Fax: (591-2) 2442474

The proposed Water Export Law:

THE HONORABLE NATIONAL CONGRESS DECREES:

ARTICLE ONE.- Authorizing the exploitation, sale and exportation of
subterranean Waters located in the jurisdiction of the Department of
Potosi, with the purpose of obtaining departmental and municipal financial
resources.

ARTICLE TWO. - The technical estimation, quantification and qualification
of the probable and proven aquiferous resources will be the responsibility
of the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Planning, which will provide
the report on existing aquiferous basins in the Department of Potosi.

ARTICLE THREE.- The Superintendent of SIRENARE, through National Public
Bidding, will proceed to the adjudication of aquiferous concessions after
regulation approved by the Executive Power. Said regulation will take into
account only the flows feasible for exploitation, similarly it will
instruct the installation of meters and other means of control and
regulation of the granted concessions.

ARTICLE FOUR.- The royal prerogatives from exploitation of subterranean
water resources are established as equivalent to 25% of the gross value of
water exported. The Municipal Governments in whose jurisdiction the water
resources are located, will receive 12% of the total value of the royal
prerogatives, to be dedicated to productive agropecuarian programs and
projects; another 12% will be destined to interprovincial and
interdepartmental productive programs and projects. The remaining 1% will
be destined to SIRENARE as a regulation rate.

Pass to the Honorable Chamber of Deputies, with modifications, for effects
of revision, It is given in the Meeting Room of the Honorable National
Senate, on the eighth of the month of November of two thousand and one.


H. Enrique Toro Tejada
PRESIDENT
HONORABLE NATIONAL SENATE



           Wilson Lora
   SENATE SECRETARY








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