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“We are on alert,” they say in La Pampa
“We are on alert, observing the situation, we will have to see specifically later if they change the Water Code each specific project to require the information corresponding as we always do,” he said Jose GobbiSecretary of Water Resources to the newspaper La Arena.
“Our purpose is fundamentally take care of natural resources of our province,” he added.
Gobbi stated that “we cannot get involved in the legislative process that this carries out in Mendoza, but In the event of any initiative that could potentially affect the interjurisdictional water resources of La Pampa, we will move forward with requests for information or environmental studies. in the forums in which we and the rest of the provinces always act in the same way, as happens in the Colorado River Basin Committee (COIRCO).”
“For Mendoza, we are always the bad guys” “For Mendoza, we are always the bad guys”
He also pointed out, always in statements to La Arena, that “COIRCO “always requests information when there is some type of activity that could affect the Colorado River. “We ask for it and so do the rest of the provinces, although Mendoza always says that we Pampas are the bad ones. Initiatives always come out by consensus,” said the official.
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What is the purpose of Mendoza having a Water Code?
The main purpose of the initiative will be to consolidate the institutionality of water and legal security for present and future generations.
In this way, the Mendoza Executive seeks condense into a single text and based on the principles of water policy consolidated in the provincial Constitution, the more than 120 current rules and regulations that regulate the use of the resource in the province.
According to explained Sergio Marinelli, head of the General Department of Irrigation, on different occasions the codification process involves a challenge of articulation of different sectors framed in a participation scheme with information stages and consultation workshops. These workshops will be aimed at experts and different central actors for the water sector and the development of our province. Nothing has been said about La Pampa.
“Water management must consider climate change and extend towards 2050,” said Marinelli.
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José Gobbi, Secretary of Water Resources of La Pampa.
The six axes of the Water Code
The General Superintendent of Irrigation detailed the 6 axes that must be taken into account:
- Offer
- Water availability
- Demand
- Economic and financial aspects
- Water governance
- Water education and culture
Given this, Marinelli pointed out that “it is necessary to know and manage the supply and availability of water efficiently and adapted to the needs of each user and crop.”
Marinelli maintained that the goal of the plan is to guarantee the amount of water for users in a predictable, sustainable and sustainable manner, plan work with the public service efficiently, and consider climate change for the long term. Given these precepts, Marinelli stated that “Mendoza is advancing in terms of irrigation in all aspects, with unique legislation in Latin America based on constitutional ethical principles”.
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