Experts are warning against steps they see as a prelude to water privatization in Jalisco. “For his part, the researcher José Antonio Gómez Reyna explained that the ban now lifted was to protect the social interest in the limited availability of water in the basins, and now he is guaranteeing legal certainty for transnational corporations so they can operate freely. ‘My question is: who will be the owner of the Rio Lerma Santiago River, Lake Chapala, [and] Green River,’ he said.”