“Discrimination by the Spanish Government against this province; The little influence the Autonomous Government has in Madrid to defend our rights, and the absence of a robust and unique approach in the opposition parties across the country, demonstrates the inability to reach agreements at the state level for the benefit of citizenship and the lack of political will. . This was expressed by Joaquín Pérez, head of CEV Alicante, this Tuesday, after the irrigation facilities were shut down. Tajo-Segura transfer In September and the threat of reducing the Ministry of Ecological Transition’s contribution to new hydrological planning by 40%.
CEV Alicante reminds The Tajo-Segura transfer is vital to all water needs of the state of Alicante. There is a water demand of 1,250 hm3/year and a potential supply of 1.031 hm3/year in this province. This causes the water deficit to reach 493.1 hm3/year with all these resources not available.
Water contribution for the economic and social sustainability of this region, Tajo-Segura transfer. In fact, a volume of 205 hm3/year is needed in addition to the average values currently taken from the rivers of the Tagus and the desertification process of this province without transfer, in the absence of technically and economically viable alternatives. will accelerate.
CEV President Alicante said the following in the light of these data: “We were ignored for years and finally If this dramatic situation is completed for Alicante, it will mean that our political representatives will not be able to defend our rights or reach a compromise at the state level. We are in a critical situation, as in regional financing,” he said.
“For Alicante, if this dramatic situation is completed, it would mean that our political representatives are unable to even defend our rights.”
They are estimated to be more 110,000 direct jobs created in the transfer water affected areaAbout 38,000 of these correspond to the province of Alicante. As this is a very competitive and exporting area in the fruit and vegetable production and processing sector, the continued impact of the reduction in transfers on other related sectors such as logistics, the chemical industry or services will have a negative impact. throughout the economy.
“We are making an urgent call from the fabric of business for it to happen. rigorous technical and economic approachenabling us to preserve the transfer-dependent business today because they are too fast to close, but too slow to offer viable alternatives”, Joaquin Perez condemns.
Vice President of GovernmentTeresa Rivera In May, in a four-hour meeting with the Tagus-Segura Aqueduct Central Board, he promised to study the hydrological plans of Tagus and Segura for three months before they were approved by the National Water Council, and then presented to the Cabinet in October. During the meeting, no progress was made in negotiating a possible deal. Ecological flows of the Tagus river in Toledo, Aranjuez and Bolarque -the key to no interruption in the transmission-but the vice president assured the irrigationists’ representatives, Lucas Jiménez and Javier Berenguer of ElcheHe stated that the study and the final decision will be made according to technical criteria, not political.
That’s where the Center Union sees a glimmer of hope, because the Ministry of Hydrological Transition will have two conflicting plans on the desk, drawn up by technicians from the ministry. On the one hand, the Tagus River documenting the Tejo River, death of transfer while increasing ecological flow and on the other, the Segura plan that warns economic disaster Social that the increase will cause in Alicante and Murcia. The swords are therefore high, but the spirit of the waterers remains the same as that which presided over the May concentration in Plaza de la Montañeta.