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Observatorio Latinoamericano de Salud.a) the organization of territory, conservation and protectionof the Environment and the restoration of nature.b) the sustainable management, jointly responsible for futuregenerations, of the hydric resources, and the preservationof the hydric cycle, which represent issues ofgeneral interest.The users and civil society will participatein all the instances of planning, management andcontrol of hydric resources, establishing the hydrographicwaterheds as the basic units.c) the institution of priorities for the use of water by regions,waterheds, or parts of them; being the supplyingof populations with potable water the first priority.d) the principle by which the provision of potable waterand sanitation services is to be executed must be thatof putting before the reasons of social nature to theones of economical nature. Every authorization, concession,or permit that violates these principles in anymanner is to be considered without effect.2) Superficial water, as much as subterranean, with the exceptionof pluvial, integrated to the hydric cycle, constitutea unitary resource subordinated to the general interest,which is part of the state public dominion, as hydricpublic dominion.3) The sanitation public service and the water supply publicservice for human consumption will be provisionedexclusively and directly by state legal entities.4) The law, through the three fifths of votes of the totalcomponents of each chamber will be able to authorizethe provision of water to another country, when this isleft without supplies, or for solidarity reasons.Article 188.- To be included:The dispositions of this article (as regards the associationsof mixed economy) will not be applicable to the essentialservices of potable water and sanitation.Transitory and Special Dispositions.- To be included:Z’’) The reparation corresponding to the enforcement of thisreform will not generate indemnification for ceasing profit,being reimbursed only non-amortized investments.In the style of the menu of the IADB, a "menu"of the multiple forms of popular resistance to the "hydricadjustment" in Latin America could be made, fromthe experiences on communitarian management ofwater systems and conservation of hydric resourcesby populations throughout Our America, the Ecuadorianexperience of the Forum of Hydric Resources, theexperience of great mobilizations of activists withinMexico, Central America, Brazil,Argentina, and the experiencesof insurrectional trait in Bolivia, to the Uruguayanexperience of constitutional reform.A Latin-American Platform to Confront"Water Adjustment"In August 2003, in San Salvador (El Salvador), organizationsand social movements throughout LatinAmerica, Canada, and the United States left a recordof their rejection of the processes of privatization ofwater resources and water services, putting forwardat the same time these proposals:1.The management of water resources must be basedon fundamental principles, such as social justice, sustainability,and universality.2.Water is a public good and an essential and inalienablehuman right, which must be promoted and protectedfor everyone.3.Water is not merchandise, and no person or entityhas the right to get rich at its expense, consequentlywater must not be privatized.131