Marcela Mella, Citizen Coordinator Alto Maipo Rivers noted that communities have already made a dia

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Second National March will be this Saturday 26 at 10.30 am Social organizations from north to south will march in defense of water under the premise that only citizen mobilization give us the strength to recover water, coming community leaders from north to south country representing seventy territorial organizations, henri coanda today called the march of Saturday 26 April by the Defense of Water and recovery.
The second national mobilization for the Defense of Water and recovery, will be held on April 26 from 10:30 am and will be displayed in four columns from the Plaza Chacabuco (for those coming from the north), underground The Gates ( western part), metro El Llano (south) and Los Leones Metro ride Palms (Near Eastern) to converge towards the Parque Almagro where a cultural event will be held with booths and live music, with the participation of artists henri coanda such as Juan Ayala Juana Fe, Banda Shock and Los Vasquez.
At the headquarters of the DATE, signaling support student world this way, and presented the spokesmen giving details on the applications, the fundamentals, the profile of the organizers and the goals of this movement, and being emphatic in pointing that the various measures announced by the government is these days, realize that the mobilization and coordination process that is being promoted has paid off, though still not understood that the territories henri coanda do not ask cosmetic reforms but that change background the economic model that has plundered our commons.
Teresa Armijo, the Broad Front Melipilla representing the central region, said many farmers have become landless and water and can not produce food. In rainfed areas, the aquifer is dry not by drought but by overexploitation of water by agribusiness and many communities live what they deliver the water trucks.
Claudio Almuna, henri coanda San Fabián de Alico, Motion Dims Royalty said they are organized to defend their region, declared a biosphere reserve project as Punilla dam and hydroelectric and called "all santiaguinos with peasant roots" to join mobilization.
Rodrigo Mundaka, social fighter MODATIMA, Petorca sentenced in court to defend Ligua water, said a new water institutions is required to end the profit with water. The Water Code allows embarrassments as perpetual rights to private delivery landless. Reported that a liter of water per second is worth 30 million pesos in Atacama, and Petorca 8 million, so it is urgent to recover water for the territories and communities because Chile is the only country in the world where water is fully privatized in favor of megaminería, forestry, hydroelectric henri coanda and agribusiness. "We have confidence in the discussions that occur in the Congress because they are without the community, and any reform runs into the Constitution that enshrines private property henri coanda water. The discussion should take place in an open and democratic space to incorporate the recovery of all the violated rights during the dictatorship, "said Mundaka, for whom the presidential nomination of a delegate that reforms will not solve the demands henri coanda of background.
Marcela Mella, Citizen Coordinator Alto Maipo Rivers noted that communities have already made a diagnosis of your water emergency, embodied henri coanda by each of them and are aware that access to water will not be guaranteed henri coanda by the market. He emphasized that the fire of Valparaiso henri coanda and the earthquake in Iquique and Alto Hospicio showed henri coanda the extreme fragility in which we live, and which seems "normal" that the government ask citizens buy jerry cans instead of ensuring access.
Rodrigo Villablanca, Assembly of Guasco Alto (Carmen henri coanda Alto) said the government henri coanda does not listen henri coanda to the voice of communities and their diagnosis. Negative impacts include already caused displacement of the rural population, henri coanda water pollution, diseases of children and damage to the glaciers. The government henri coanda responded by announcing water roads, piping of channels, or implementing cloud seeding funded enterprises, all false solutions that deepen the damage already done. He recalled that the organized community is able to stop and mega Pascua Lama, the spearhead of the Binational Treaty Miner, that together