The Board of Spokesmen Totana City Council today agreed to make an official statement and file a joint motion in Parliament to support the demands made by the irrigators Totana their crops to provide the necessary water resources to the situation existing drought.
The mayor, Juan José Canovas, and the four spokespersons, Andrés García, Antonia Camacho, Asensio Soler and Isabel Maria Sanchez, met today to address this issue and in order to realize a proposal containing the claims made by farmers region.
Municipal officials have captured the main demands adopted at the meeting held two weeks ago at the headquarters of the Community of Irrigators of Totana, convened by it and the different agricultural organizations established in the municipality.
Thus, the full City Council of Totana will show solidarity with the community of irrigators and farmers' organizations in their claims to support full and severally vindictive approach of the Bureau of Water in defense needs to alleviate the severe water problem both immediate and future in the Region of Murcia.
In addition, it will encourage Acuamed, Ministry of Agriculture and Hydrographic Confederation of Segura (CHS) for the urgent application processing CSR-2/2015 of "bound in El Raiguero, Paretón and Huerta with 10 Hm3 Irrigation from the demineralisation Eagles ", applied for on 29 December 2014.
It will also ask Acuamed, Ministry of Agriculture and CHS to the signing of the use of 5 Hm3 expandable to 10 Hm3, authorized by the Ministry of Agriculture on April 19, 2014 under Decree Drought for irrigation of Trasvase Tajo-Segura.
The motion will ask the CHS, Acuamed and Community Irrigation Lorca and Puerto Lumbreras to establishing the operating rules of existing pipelines from the point of delivery of the desalination plant "Cerro Colorao and making this Community irrigators "before September 30, 2016, for the provision of resources possible mentioned above under the same conditions as other users.
The initiative also aims to encourage the CHS to the execution of emergency works covered in the Decree of Drought current and foreseeable extension to manage the resources listed above (reservoir of 200,000 m3 located in decision No. 2 deTotana desalination plant and connection to the existing mains, 2nd phase of 600 mm pipe from the house to the raft Cleric Lebor and connection pipe section 500 mm to connect the sectors V and VI of irrigated Trasvase).
Similarly, the proposal shall request the CHS along with the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Innovation and the Ministry of Agriculture and Water to develop guidelines for rationalization in the supply and demand of water resources in the municipality of Totana.
These guidelines should incorporate an updated and transparent state of the aquifers of the municipality in addition to the flow of information desalination plants and the possible arrival of fresh water by natural channels or through the Tajo-Segura.
A level of supply strategy "pool" of water from the aquifers of the municipality must develop, according to the motion, in addition to the flow of desalination plants and the possible arrival of fresh water by natural channels or through the transfer Tajo Safe.
The strategy of "pool" of water from aquifers in the region in addition to the flow of desalination plants and the possible arrival of fresh water by natural channels or through the Tajo-Segura must include three main variables cost, quality and quantity .
It is also suggested by the level totanera Corporation study offer the contribution of new flows from the municipality of Calasparra Syncline.
