Connect reservoirs of the Tajo-Segura transfer and the full is hidden

The first connection between the two reservoirs that supply the transfer of the Tagus to the Segura – Broker and Buendía – will allow regulate the reservation level Set, but also hide that currently one of them, that of Entrepeñas, is at 86% capacity while Buendía is 46%. This abundance dismantles the speech that there is no water from the Junta de Castilla-La Mancha and its president, Emiliano García Page. And meanwhile, in the southeast peninsular the decrease of water resources is already muddy and not only among irrigators.

A few days ago, the president of the Segura Hydrographic Confederation (CHS), Mario Urrea, when presenting the initial documents of the fourth cycle of hydrological planning 2028-2033, already anticipated that they are badly given: “We are going to have less resources from the point of view of the Tajo-Segura transfer and the groundwater.”

A reality completely alien to that of the transferor basin, where they are now going to have an infrastructure to manage and take better advantage of the good situation of the last year of records never seen since before 1998. It is about that new channel that connects the swamps of Entrepeñas and Buendía, which was designed when they were created-with the end of supplying flows to the aqueduct The year 1956“But it has taken 27 years” to come true, as highlighted by the Minister of Sustainable Development, Mercedes Gómez.

As noted, what its design provided, fundamentally, is that the possible surpluses of the Entrepeñas reservoir served to nurture the Buendía reservoir, which is downstream and that it has a greater capacity, but that “it does not have the necessary contributions … It really is a reservoir that has never been filled».

Undoubtedly, it is unlikely to see at the highest Buendía level, because it is one of the five swamps with the greatest capacity of the Iberian Peninsula, with 1,705 cubic hectometers, above, for example, that of Mequinenza, known as the Sea of ​​Aragon for its immensity, in the demarcation of the Ebro. For comparing, the fifteen reservoirs of the Safe Basin 1,140 hm3although they have been at levels of 25% for several years and have touched around 18%, in the status considered “dry fund.”

However, the Castilla-La Mancha government It continues to demand the urgent modification of the exploitation rules of the Tajo-Segura transfer, which according to their position had to have changed more than a year ago and “the route is still long,” the counselor lamented.

Raise from 1,300 to 2,000 hm3

As revealed by the UCLM-Soliss Tajo chair, the aspiration is to raise, among other parameters, from 1,300 to 2,000 cubic hectometers the so-called level 1, which automatically allows 60 Hm3 monthly transfers.

In the practice already tenor of the records of the historical of the two reservoirs of origin, that water volume will never occur, with the dimensions of the Buendía swamp. Moreover, Gomez already considered A “fiction” The current more than 1,400 hm3, because “climate change can completely vary that situation.” Apart from that connection channel with Entrepeñas, another project in sight is to condition as navigable a section of about ten kilometers of the Tajo in Toledo, for nautical sports with a jetty, which will also require a stable and abundant flow.