President of the Valencian Business Confederation (CEV) in Alicante, Joaquin Perez, wrote an interesting article in this newspaper yesterday about the situation of the Tajo-Segura transfer, which was threatened with death due to the increase in the ecological flow that the government wanted to impose unilaterally. In it, the businessman from Elche advocates removing discussion from the emotional realm and placing it in rationality; broadening the focus, leaving agriculture to place it on the more general plane of the economy; To keep alive the argument that the currents must reach Alicante legally and not to give up on his defense, but also to consider all alternatives that can be put on the table as long as it is considered, that is, with deadlines and funding; and finally, to organize the reaction to the Executive’s plans not from partisan groups, but from the articulation of civil society.
On the other hand, I couldn’t agree more with the surprising article from the president of the employers’ association. More than two years ago I wrote here that the key to coming out of the constant state of insecurity about the water supply in which we live is to treat it as a problem, not a conflict. Because as problems are resolved, conflicts flare up. The so-called “water wars” have erupted since the beginning of the transfer and did not serve to solve anything. The proof is that 43 years after the first stream went through its pipes, here we are: we’re putting on a show.
The concentration that took place last Tuesday at Alicante’s Plaza de la Montanyeta did not go as it should. It’s better to say it than to deceive ourselves. There were a lot of politicians. Muscle was missing. More than once, the farmers were left alone, despite being surrounded by all kinds of public officials. As if it were a single sector issue, agriculture, as the text signed by Joaquín Pérez very well says, affects the economy and GDP of an entire province, ranking fifth in Spain. The title of the CEV president’s article in Alicante could not have been clearer: “We are not talking about water.” Actually. We are talking much more.
Alicante, along with Almería, is one of the few regions of the European Union that is technically considered deserted. That is, it cannot be sustained by its own resources. There have been years when our precipitation has been lower than in areas outside Europe, which are essentially deserts. badlands bad lands This is the nomenclature often used for these lands in Anglo-Saxon geography handbooks. And yet we have Moorish tradition, exploitation of wells (unfortunately, overexploitation), intense effort to take advantage of the minimum flow we receive, actions such as transfer and an awareness that is undervalued from outside, wastewater, the fact that we have a leading agriculture in export. And also a top-notch tourism industry. All this does not receive gratuitous or graceful resources from others, but rather contributes to their growth. If we talk about interregional solidarity, Alicante can lead the discussion: the important thing is that it contributes more economically than it receives. Yes: also Castilla-La Mancha, who, no matter what color their president is, often finds it more profitable to shoot at us than to face the source of all their troubles, Madrid. And above all, it’s more profitable than doing a conscience examination and recognizing all the infrastructures that have the finances to run it for years. But it would be impossible to balance their accounts without adding ours. So let’s start talking properly. And to answer Garcia Page to place him in front of the mirror of his demagoguery, as we had to do before kozpedal with or Connect. Shall we talk about the transfer? Certainly. But it’s not like we’re thieves. We’ve been paying the tolls religiously for forty years, without ever telling us what governments put that money into. First of all, let me make it clear.
But as Joaquín Pérez said and INFORMATION has been publishing for years, it’s not just a question of risk. The entire economy of Alicante depends entirely on water, or its lack. Not filling swimming pools as it is often misspelled. However, I insist again, providing a service to an industry results in balancing the national balance of payments. In the early years of democracy, just as the construction of the Tajo to Segura crossing, which was officially inaugurated in 1979, was completed, the last major supply crisis occurred. As the Canfali newspaper well documented at the time, the tankers had to carry water to Benidorm in the summer of 1978. La Cordorniz published a cover in which an assistant said to the duty minister: “Your Excellency, they are calling from Benidorm. They want water”- “With or without gas?”, Amir replied without hesitation. Thanks to these barrels, the situation was saved. But Benidorm lost its strongest German market.
It’s not just tourism. The municipalities with the largest populations in the province, including Alicante, Elche and Benidorm, are supplied with drinking water via the Mancomunidad de los Canales del Taibilla, thanks to Tagus. Regardless of the turnover, will the taps be turned off in those municipalities? No way. However, the restrictions will not be ignored in the future. And of course the receipt will increase. So this is not farmer business. Not just.
The reproaches between the parties are devoid of any legitimacy beyond squeezing the sheep at this point. Both PSOE and PP have betrayed their word a thousand times over. makeshoemaker He abolished the Hydrological Plan prepared by his last government. Aznar? Yes, he did. As Aznar repealed the Hydrological Plan drawn up by the last González government, Joseph Borrell. vice president Theresa Rivera Is Tagus determined to close the transfer? It seems so. but no less Isabel Tejerinaat the last ministerial stage of the branch Rajoy. The right is under the weight of changing electoral interests, as well as the left with ideological biases on this issue. If this were not the case, we would not be where we are if it were true that transfer is “indispensable” for the left, as they say, and water for everyone, as they claim, for the right: the same thing we mobilized five, ten, fifteen, twenty, thirty years ago. That’s why we mobilize. Neither the PSOE governments in Madrid or Valencia, nor the PP governments in either place did anything in this regard. But Vox, a party that cares about water as much as starling, can’t fix anything. What he wants is to fish in the rebel ditches, which is his specialty, and the farmers will do a bad job if they take advantage of them as they come to use them. The despair is understandable. Losing your head is not recommended.
It’s already written. We must be able to turn water into a problem, not a conflict. Problems solved, conflicts rooted
Joaquín Pérez says, he has been saying for years INFORMATION and it is worth repeating. We should sit down to negotiate provisions that will guarantee water and supply uses while respecting sustainability and the ecosystem, but preserving the economy of the province. And this is not an Alicante issue: it is an important issue not primarily for the Valencian Community, but also for the State. Of course, climate change is a reality, and it is a fact that solutions today may not be the same as they were forty years ago. But one of Spain’s most productive regions cannot be condemned to impoverishment. Measures cannot be implemented without listening to all parties, without making an objective and competent evaluation, without negotiating reconciliation, without adequate explanation and without an adequate compensation policy. This has never been done to anyone, why would we allow it to be done here now?
It’s just a question, not a sector or a region. It concerns the entire economy of the province of Alicante and therefore the economy of the Valencian Community and should be treated as such.
A three-month window was opened, with the central government slapped by the arm to review the ucase it plans to run, with disastrous consequences for Alicante’s economy if left untouched. This was partly due to the concentration that took place in Alicante on Tuesday to reach this ceasefire. Civil society must now bring their ranks closer, realizing that this is not just Vega Baja’s or Vinalopó’s problem, but everyone’s problem. And not of a particular sector, but of the economy as a whole. And put together sensible offers. Whoever goes to a trading desk with nothing but a maximums program is always the loser. But you don’t have to go to him to ask permission or ask for forgiveness. We have as many reasons as any, we’re prouder these days, they might miss them in the end. But for this to end well, the Provincial Assembly and the Generalitat need to go hand in hand without accountability and without opportunism. And with the whole Community – not just Alicante, I said Community – behind them.
“Water wars” broke out on the day the Tagus transfer was launched in 1979. And more than forty years later, we are the same: we protest. PP and PSOE are not credible
I have already said that in order to transfer water to the category of problems, we must remove it from the area of conflict. Let me give you another comma. What really needs to be accomplished is for Madrid to understand that the problem is not water: it is Alicante. Look at the breakdown of state budgets, almost always so greedy with this region that even the Generalitat had to make up the last fiscal year of its coffers, and tell me if you’re not tired of being a pay zone.
When is AVI’s headquarters in Alicante?
J.R. Gil
Josephine Good Innovation, Science, Universities etc. He got off to a strong start in ministries. Referring to a meeting with the vice-president of the Valencia Innovation Agency, Andres Garcia Reche He said that if anything goes wrong in the distribution of funds for that farmhouse, which last year spent more than eighty percent of its budget on Valencia and a few crumbs on Alicante, it would be reviewed. He must not sit well with the vice president of AVI, as he is accustomed to being unaccountable. But if the councilman whose courage will be applauded wants his goodwill to be taken seriously, nothing is as easy as getting the Agency back to where its headquarters are, according to the Consell chief’s statement. I mean Alicante. I’m not saying that Mr. Reche has to do business here every day, I won’t be so cruel, but I’m not saying that he never came or that he has most of the officials in Cap i Casal. . What if it was the other way around? What would we say if the office of a Valencia-based organization was in Madrid? barbarisms. But here you consent. In this sense, García Reche must be admitted to have been a pioneer: he had already invented taking work to the door of the house, even though he accepted a position with the lowest standing as the rest of us struggled to adapt to telework. a different state. So this AVI thing is not just about how the money is distributed, but also about the whereabouts of an organization that, strange as it may seem, is said to be in Alicante but has never been here. Is it so hard to understand the sarcasm involved in this?
Source: Informacion
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