The regional Executive has formulated 92 allegations to the plans of the Segura and of the Tagus, indicated yesterday the counselor Antonio Luengo, in line with those presented by the governments of Andalusia and the Valencia Community regarding the defense of the Transfer. It indicates as the main threat a cut of 100 hm3 per year for irrigation. “It has been shown that this proposal responds to dispersed and subjective criteria that generate significant indeterminacy, for which we demand a thorough review by a central public body to determine again the figures for each basin,” said Luengo.
He added that no justification has been found to increase the flows in favor of the improvement of biodiversity or the benefit of the landscape, “since the increase in the water surface as it passes through Aranjuez would be barely two centimeters.”
The document indicates that the planning of the Segura cannot ignore the Mar Menor. Luengo adds that there is a lack of measures to address the overexploitation of aquifers, while proposing “to study the incorporation of the Altiplano area into the Júcar-Vinalopó action.” The Altiplano should also be included in the urban network of Taibilla, he said. The text was sent to the municipalities so that they can adhere.
Years without transfers
The Irrigation Union, for its part, alleges that the Tagus plan is “arbitrary” because it does not take into account the demands of the aqueduct; at the same time that he censures that a study of the socioeconomic impact that the cut of the Transfer in the Levant will have has not been carried out. Likewise, it maintains that the demands of the head of the Tagus “are overestimated.” To the same extent, it considers that ecological flows are established higher than those necessary to achieve the good state of the water bodies.
It indicates that such flows are miscalculated, which would cause a 31% decrease in the Transfer in the year 2027. In that horizon, there would be 228 hm3 for supplies and irrigation, with the possibility that some year it may not be transferred, not even for the population. Irrigation would lose almost half of the historical average.
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