In an unprecedented alliance between environmentalists and government bodies, 22 municipalities in Montseny and the Llémena Valley, along with the Girona Provincial Council and the Vallès Oriental County Council, have approved a joint motion to regulate the bottled water industry. In Catalonia, companies in this sectorThese mines, concentrated mainly on the slopes of Montseny, the Guilleries mountains, and the Garrotxa volcanoes, extract and bottle thousands of liters of water daily from natural aquifers under regulations based on the Francoist mining law of 1973. These long-term extractions, without limits or clear controls, leave many springs and streams in the surrounding natural environment, especially during periods of drought, dry up or with very little flow. Therefore, the motion urges the Parliament of Catalonia to form a delegation of representatives from political groups tasked with promoting the amendment of the mining law in the Congress of Deputies. The objective of this unprecedented alliance is for deep aquifers to be recognized as a strategic natural resource and managed with transparency and ecological protection criteria, within the framework of European Union directives. The text was first promoted over a year ago by the Coordinator for the Safeguarding of Montseny, with the support of other entities such as Aigua es Vida (Water is Life), right after the critical moment of the severe drought. At that time, as spokesperson Carles Lumeras denounces, "the population began to suffer restrictions, while trucks loaded with bottled water continued to leave via the Arbúcies road."