Although last week the mayors of southern Mendoza They assured that they would seek a political solution to the conflict with The Pampa through the waters of Atuel Riverthis Tuesday, June 11, the General Department of Irrigation will file a complaint against the neighboring province.
From the organization that is in charge of controlling the water Mendoza They announced in a call for a press conference that they will file a complaint against The Pampa. Superintendent Sergio Marinelli and the advisor of the Atuel River Gustavo Villegas will be in charge of giving the details of the complaint, of which no data has been leaked and which they assure will be of great weight, so they seek to make it officially known on Tuesday.
At the end of May, the governor of The Pampa Sergio Ziliotto filed a claim in the Supreme Court of Justice demanding that Mendoza meets the 3.2 cubic meters per second of water in the Atuel River who must be released according to the 2020 ruling. In a few words, he accused Mendoza of making a “waste of water”.
Days ago, the mayor of that department, Alejandro Molero, Omar Félix de San Rafael and Celso Jaque de Malargüe, met in General Alvear, as well as the director of government affairs of the Ministry of Government of Mendoza, Francisco Mondotte, and the General Superintendent of the Irrigation Department, Sergio Marinelli. There they talked about the demand for The Pampa and the position of Mendoza before the conflict.
“This meeting implies that in the basin we have all the people informed, that all political actors, regardless of the party to which they belong, close ranks and that, with the governor at the head, we start a fight to prevent it from generating suddenly a damage that will not have a solution for us later,” Marinelli said a few days ago to MDZ.
“We Mendoza have to start contributing our side of the coin to the rest of the country because there is a history that is longer than this stage. There was a ruling here, more than 14 years ago, where we were given the possibility of irrigating up to 75,670 hectares through the Atuel. Once this demand was satisfied, it was going to be decided together how the volume was going to be to go to The Pampa. Then the environmental issue appears, The Pampa It comes from the environmental side and this failure has to do with recomposing the environment of a sector in the northwest of The Pampa“he added without giving clues to the complaint.
