Water & Waste: The week in 10 stories

BRAZIL

President Michel Temer signed a provisory measure to attract more private sector investment in sanitation projects.

A legislator subsequently filed a lawsuit challenging that provisory measure.

CHILE

The lower house of congress unanimously approved a bill that would prevent the constitution of rights to use glacier water for private activities.

COLOMBIA

Water group Inassa was fined 5bn pesos (US$1.8mn) over charges of transnational bribery.

EL SALVADOR

The attorney general's office launched a probe into the pipeline incident that left 25% of the greater San Salvador area without water earlier this month.

MEXICO

The legislative agenda unveiled by president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador includes a proposal to repeal the 10 water reservoir decrees recently signed by Enrique Peña Nieto.

Mexico City's water utility Sacmex is tendering a contract to carry out a study on how to regenerate and improve one of the capital's main water sources.

PANAMA

The housing ministry is tendering a contract to build 5,000 basic sanitation units in Panama district.

PERU

Work on the second stage of the US$550mn Majes-Siguas irrigation project expected to restart next month.

Water utility Sedapal is working on 15 potable water and sewerage projects in Lima under President Martín Vizcarra's plan to reach universal service coverage.