The Madre Vieja river conflict and its relevance to agribusiness
- Water for industry
- Industrial water, wells and discharges
- Audited
It is a recurrent conflict on the south coast over diversions of the Madre Vieja river (Tiquisate) toward oil palm plantations: in 2018 the Human Rights Ombudsman's Office accused Grupo HAME of 'opening channels that diverted the waters of the Madre Vieja river', and in 2019 the same was alleged on the Suchiate river (Mongabay, 2021, verified 2026-08-22). The description of 'loss of subsistence fishing and irrigation; annual community mobilization' comes from CONNECTAS, which was inaccessible during the audit. It illustrates the dossier's pattern: conflicts break out where industry competes for visible surface water.
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Figures
- Acusación de la PDH a Grupo HAME por desvío del Madre Vieja
- 2018 (Suchiate: 2019)
Caveat
Sources
Organizations named in the answer
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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