The strategy on water management, approved by the Council of Ministers, affects the “fragile balance between available resources and demands”
Yesterday, the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (Miteco) took another step forward in its water management and regulation policy, with the approval, by the Council of Ministers, of a new strategy “to improve water management in the face of to the impacts of climate change”, as reported by the Ministry in a press release.
The approved document, called Strategic Guidelines on Water and Climate Change, is provided for by the climate change law “to establish guidelines and measures in water planning and management that increase the country’s resilience against global warming.”
The proposed measures will have an impact on the Region of Murcia and on the Tajo-Segura Transfer, since one of the challenges set forth is to face “the situation of a fragile balance between the available resources and the demands for water, sanitation and purification, the state groundwater and river disturbances. In addition, it also refers to “the revision of the directive on the treatment of urban wastewater, together with diffuse pollution by nitrates as other “challenges to be overcome”.
Improved debugging
The Ministry, whose head, Teresa Ribera, visits the Region this Friday, explains that, according to the conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, “the Mediterranean region is especially sensitive to the impacts of global warming. There is a high probability of declining water resources in the hydrographic basins that currently bear the main water management problems. For this reason, the new strategy focuses on identifying the challenges associated with water management and the most appropriate instruments to face them.”
Among the proposed measures, they highlight «the recovery, restoration and protection of rivers, lakes, aquifers, and wetlands, the increase in water security, the improvement of sanitation and purification in urban agglomerations; the fight against diffuse pollution or progress in managing the risk of floods or droughts».
The guidelines are also committed to reinforcing the financing of hydraulic administrations and promoting the international water agenda.
These lines of action, according to the Ministry, will be completed with the promotion of new technologies, sustainable economic activities and the construction of a transparent, equitable and participatory water governance model.
The instruments that will make it possible to develop the measures to be implemented will be the basin hydrological plans, the flood risk management plans and the drought plans. In addition, they will also be supported by the initiatives provided for in the Groundwater Action Plan, currently being drafted, the Perte for the Digitization of the Water Cycle or the National River Restoration Strategy.
The implementation of these lines of action will have as a time horizon the year 2030, whose first milestone will be the approval this year of the hydrological plans of the third cycle and of the flood risk management plans.
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