1. Access to potable water constitutes an inalienable human right and must be constitutionally guaranteed.
2. Water management (gestión del agua) and, above all, the rules of access to this resource must be governed by a principle of equity and social and intergenerational solidarity.
3. Water must be considered, within the legislation, as a public domain asset (bien de dominio público) and consequently becomes an unseizable, inalienable, and imprescriptible asset.
4. The economic value of water, which derives from the cost of administering, protecting, and recovering it for the well-being of all, must be recognized. This supports a correct valuation of the resource that is manifested in conservation and protection behaviors by users.
5. The ecological function of water must be recognized as a source of life and survival for all species and ecosystems that depend on it.
6. The use of water must be carried out using the best possible infrastructure and technology in such a way as to avoid its waste and contamination.
7. Water resource management (gestión del recurso hídrico) must be integrated, decentralized, and participatory, based on the watershed (cuenca hidrográfica) as the unit of planning and management.
8. The Ministry of Environment and Energy exercises the lead authority in matters of water resources (recursos hídricos). Institutional management in this field must adopt the precautionary principle or in dubio pro natura.
9. The water resource (recurso hídrico) and the forces derived from it are strategic assets of the country.
10. That the promotion of alternative renewable energy sources that reduce or eliminate the impact of this activity on the water resource (recurso hídrico) is of utmost importance.