Water Code LAW 21435 (Chile)

Among its priorities is the registration and regularization of water rights, both surface and underground. Published in April 2022. Prioritizing human consumption, domestic subsistence use (water that a person extracts for personal consumption, drinking for their animals or horticultural crops) and sanitation, along with ensuring harmony and balance between the function of ecosystem preservation and the productive function that water fulfills. The axes of this reform are 4: right to water and sanitation that prioritizes human consumption, ecosystem preservation, governance and territorial management, sustainable production and water efficiency, imposing demands on both users of waters as well as the General Directorate of Water (DGA) of the Ministry of Public Works.