The struggle waged by the Church and environmentalists Olanchanos is also a brilliant chapter in the struggle in defense of water. No trees, no water. This fight for the forests was related to struggles against the privatization of drinking water.
On March 4th National Congress lawmakers signed a resolution in which it pledged to suspend indefinitely the discussion of the draft framework law on Water and Sanitation and to launch a consultation process that led to the formulation of a proposal agreed law to represent the interests of various sectors of the country. However, on April 7 Congressmen were ready to submit a bill with the same logic of the old law. Aqua popular organizations in El Progreso, Santa Barbara and Tegucigalpa wrote a letter to Congress legislators reminding their commitments and informing that the popular organizations had launched the consultation process to gather the ideas of the Honduran population with respect to water drinking with them to prepare a draft law submitted to Congress in the first week of July.