Industrial water and private wells in a country with no water law
- Energy, water and telecommunications
- Industrial water, wells and discharges
- not audited
Guatemala has no general water law — a '40-year constitutional debt' — and no systematic national registry or monitoring of groundwater extraction; municipalities run the urban systems and indigenous communities operate their own. For a plant, supply from its own well is handled today through municipal licenses and MARN environmental instruments, with no national extraction fee. There is no national public price list for drilling or for licenses: the regime and the cost per meter have to be established municipality by municipality, a task pending for the data phase.
The research is written in English; quoted figures, source names and the titles of legal instruments stay in the language their source published them in.
Figures
- Ley general de aguas
- inexistente (deuda constitucional de 40 años)
- Canon nacional por extracción de pozo
- no existe
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Sources
Related records
- Absence of a general water law and national extraction fee
- Right to drill a well and ownership of the water (Civil Code)
- Industrial self-supply and the 2,000 wells of Guatemala's valley
- Procedure to drill an industrial well in the metropolitan area
- Cost and regulation of the municipal well-drilling license
- MARN environmental license costs and categories
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