most funds for river basin management come from federal programmes that target subsectoral problems such as infrastructure development construction without an integrated basinwide perspective this renders river basin organisation entirely dependent on the federal budget for example in depending on how water expenditures are classified conagua will spend between mxn to billion on water resources management furthermore river basin organisations have no revenueraising powers and their river basin plans fail to guide funding for projects water abstraction and pollution charge rates are set at federal level by the federal duties law collected by conagua but proceeds go back to the federal budget this goes against the tentative waterpaysforwater principle the law on contributions for improvements generated by federal public works of water infrastructure ley de contribuciones de mejoras por obras publicas federates de infrastructura hidraulica which establishes the regulations and procedures for recovering the cost of public investments in water infrastructure in mexico this has not yet been applied