The Minister of Public Works asks for more “technical rigor” in “administrative” initiatives that “all they do is prohibit”
The Minister of Development and Infrastructure, José Ramón Díez de Revenga, yesterday urged public administrations to “not demagogue” about catastrophes such as the one that occurred in the Murcian district of Javalí Viejo during the torrential rains last Monday.
In a press conference after the weekly meeting of the Governing Council, Díez de Revenga defended the need to “prevent and act” in the channels to avoid similar episodes.
“From the regional government we want to send a very clear message, and that is that we must have fewer maps and more defense actions against the avenues. It is what has kept us going throughout our history, and it is what we must continue to move forward with,” he noted.
“We have been suffering from rain damage for 2,000 years and taking all kinds of measures to minimize it”
In line, he pointed out that flood zones must be treated “with great technical rigor”, an issue on which Murcians are -he said- “great connoisseurs”, since it is a territory in which “we have been suffering from these floods for 2,000 years and doing all kinds of actions to minimize them, many of which also give very good results».
The proof of this, he assured, “is that with flows such as those that have fallen these days or with rainfall such as that which occurred in DANA in 2019, if we had not had all the historical baggage of defense works against floods, catastrophes They would have been so much more important.”
Díez de Revenga was in favor of continuing to work along the lines of “preventive actions on riverbeds, flattening avenues and not administrative actions, such as some maps and questions of dubious technical rigor” that “the only thing they do is to prohibit and not to defend.
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