MURCIA. Fernando López Miras Go back to the load with a new letter with sender to the Moncloa. The Head of the Regional government requests a “Urgent meeting“With the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchezto “reverse” The exploitation rules of the Tajo-Segura transfer. The Murcian president signed the letter last Tuesday, May 6, the same day that the irrigators developed their first great act of protest in the Chamber of Commerce with the presence of civil society and the main authorities of the region, Community Valenciana and Andalusia, such as López Mira themselves, the president Valencian Carlos Mazón and the Andalusian Minister of Agriculture, Ramón Fernández-Pacheco.
See here the letter sent to the government president.
“I ask you to maintain urgently, and in the shortest possible time, a meeting to reverse this measure of very serious economic and social consequences for the most effective instrument of intertritorial solidarity in Spain, such as the Tajo-Segura transfer,” writes the regional leader before the CEDEX proposal for the update of the exploitation rules of the Tajo-Secure transfer, commissioned by the Ministry for the Ministry Ecological and the demographic challenge.
Not surprisingly, the document slides an approach that, in practice, implies the cut of up to 50% of water shipments until 2027, estimating that the reservoirs of the header of the Tagus can allocate the following figures to the lift: 320 cubic hectometers this year; 278 hm3 In 2026 and 193 hm3 In 2027. The new exploitation rules, specifically, cut from 27 to 24 the cubic hectometers to be transferred in the event that the reservoirs are at level 2. at level 3, it is passed from the current 20 to 11 hm3 In 2025, at 10 a.m.3 In 2026 already 9 hm3 In 2027. In addition, to reach that level 3 you have to be in an accumulated 550 or 600 hm3compared to 400 hm3 now. In the case of level 1, the current 60 hm3 are maintained, but the threshold of the reserves of Entrepeñas and Buendía of the 1,300 hm3 in force up to 1,600 hm3.
A decision “not supported for technical or scientific reasons”
In the opinion of López Miras, it is “a decision that is not supported by technical or scientific reasons.” In addition, “it puts the future of millions of people at risk and will have a tremendously negative impact on the richness that the Levantine agricultural sector contributes to the prosperity of the nation as a whole.” That is why he assures that, “once again, and all that are missing”, the executive of the Region of Murcia “again tends the government to the government to address a definitive, fair and balanced solution to the problem of water in the Spanish Levante.”
And despite the fact that on numerous occasions he has criticized the decisions of Moncloa and the Ministry, López Miras argues that “in a capital issue such as water, the government of the Region of Murcia has always set aside any ideological and political consideration for the sake of institutional loyalty and the search for solutions from the dialogue between the parties involved.” In fact, before the irrigators, whom last Tuesday he already advanced that he would send the letter, the Lorquino promised to offer his “will to dialogue” and his “hand laid” towards the Government of Spain. But he also wanted to launch a warning: if they continue the letters unanswered and unanswered calls, “I will be the first to exercise as Murcian before as president.”
“good faith and hand laid”, but also a warning: “I will not give up”
The letter emphasizes that his “good faith” in the search for an agreement “remains intact”, but also makes it clear that he maintains his “commitment and firm determination in the defense of farmers and irrigators, of all companies and the set of economic activities that will be terribly affected” by a decision that, “seems to challenge all logic and that puts at serious risk the support of the state of welfare and of Almería, and of the Region of Murcia, but of a very important part of the Spanish population. “
It is not the first letter that sends to the Spanish president, who has sent more 20 letters to talk about very important issues for the region, as well as revealed in October 2024, in the days before his only meeting with Sánchez held in Moncloa. And in this last text it is remembered: “In recent years and repeatedly, I have expressed my deep concern about this essential issue, as well as my total willingness to be able to maintain a meeting with you to advance in a definitive solution to the problem of water in the region of Murcia, which happens, inevitably, by a great national agreement that ends the disputes for a fundamental natural resource that, as sets by the Constitution, belongs to all the Constitution.
And he ends up warning that, although he claims not to have received an answer, he does not feel willing to “claudicate” in his “firm purpose” to do everything in his “hand to find the solution to such a vital issue for the Region of Murcia as is the continuity of the Tajo-Segura transfer and of the shipments of the water flows.” And that happens, he concludes, “for the suspension of the modification of the exploitation rules of the transfer.”
