The Andalusian government, together with the executives of Murcia and Valencia, have denounced the “Insolidario” cut of the Tajo-Segura transfer that the Government of Spain has carried out and that, only in Almería, will mean economic losses for More than 30 million eurosdirectly affecting 5,000 hectaresand indirectly, the 24.000 from the Levante area, mainly dedicated to outdoor crops.
This has been indicated by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development, Ramón Fernández-Pacheco, who has participated together with the highest leaders of the Autonomous Governments of Murcia and Valencia in an act against the new rules of exploitation of the transfer, convened in Murcia by the central union of irrigators of the Tajo-Sure Aqueduct (SCRATs).
The counselor has guaranteed that Andalusia “will give the battle, as he is doing since 2019, for the irrigators, for agriculture and for water rights, They are not of a few, as they want to make us see from the Ministry of Ecological Transition. “
After regretting that “some have made this public good a throwing weapon with which to pay fidelities and punish territories”, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development has assured that the Southeast Spanish suffers “A double drought: The climatological and that to which the Government of Spain submits that, favors the insolvency between territories and condemnation, without water, constantly and continuously, to regions such as Murcia, Valencia and Andalucía. “
Unilateral decision of the Government of Spain
He has criticized that, “precisely when there are more water resources, the Ministry of Ecological Transition, unilaterally and without accepting the participation or collaboration of the most affected regions, makes a decision that comes to half reduce the water destined from the Tajo-Segura transfer to which it is a garden of Europethe one that feeds not only the Spaniards but hundreds of millions of Europeans a year.
In his opinion, The “ax” to the irrigators of Alicante, Murcia and Almería endangers not only thousands of hectares of sustainable and efficient culture, but also endangers the food sovereignty of Andalusia. “Drying the Southeast Spanish has direct effects on our field, our GDP, the volume of our exports and the use of thousands of families living directly and indirectly of agriculture,” said the counselor.
Fernández-Pacheco has said to understand the “concern and indignation” of the irrigators and has insisted that the Andalusian government will not remain silent. As he insisted, “we are not going to allow this cut and we will resort to everything I appeal, We are going to fight in the political sphere, of course, in the legal, in the coach, and also in the social to hear the voice of the field of Alicante, Murcia and Almería’s. “
He has remarked that from Andalusia, Valencia and Murcia “we do not ask that they give us what others are lacking; we do not ask for others to miss; we ask for a water that there is, which can be transferred without affecting the environment, without harming anyone. A water that, in Andalusia, in Valencia and Murcia, we transform into wealth. A water with which a whole territory develops socially and economically.”
national Water Plan, “parked”
Along with this, the counselor has lamented that The Government of Spain has “parked” the National Water Plan “in front of a national drought plan”. And, instead of doing the promised and committed works to be declared of general interest of the State -118 they are pending in Andalusia- “is determined to turn into a rule what its partners ask for, which is necessary, although it clearly harms others.”
For Fernández-Pacheco, the Government of Spain, the Ministry of Ecological Transition and some presidents of Autonomous Communities should know that the transfers “are not a gift that some regions, that some basins, make others. Water is natural resource, a public good and is the State, head of the public domain of the waters, which has the competition when planning its use.”
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