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The regional deputy and Municipal spokesperson for the city of Lorca, Manuel Soler Antonio Cerdá asks the counselor to demand that the Government of Spain the publication of a National Drought Decree, which allows to operate the dry wells and a plan replanting of almond trees that have dried.
"These and other measures that may be established by law are urgently needed to solve the problems of drought".
From the Socialist Party run potential measures are proposed and some of them on short notice, to have between 5 and 7 hm3 water desalination plant located in tailings through a barter system with the Commonwealth Taibilla Channel, to Lorca irrigators can use the water from the Tajo Segura assigned to the Commonwealth and distributed in the city of Cartagena desalinated water supply.
The tailings Desalting Plant has a capacity to produce 23 hm 3 / year of water.
At present it is producing 25% of its capacity and we are paying for it Murcia 20 million euros each year.
Soler said that "this figure we have to endure the obligatory work or not, when you only need to pay the extra electricity consumption to produce larger quantities of water."
Soler said the same operation can be performed with Acuamed Plant property, located in the town of Eagle, where the Community Irrigation Lorca has hired 23 hm3 and not the pipe be installed in most of the route to drive water to the distribution centers of Lorca CR, it can only consume a quarter of the total available.
Socialist spokesman did not share the statements made by the Minister of Agriculture on the occasion of his visit to Lorca to join the Community of Irrigators.
Cerda said the problem of lack of water for irrigation is performed by the expansion of irrigation.
Soler said that if the pipe was installed in its entirety, Lorca irrigators could consume around 18 hm3 / year more than they currently consume and would have no problem to irrigate their crops.
Commitment ACUAMED
For several years there is a commitment by installing ACUAMED general lead water pipe plant Aguilas to the irrigated areas of the Community.
To date it has only been installed the first phase.
A proposal of the Socialist Group was approved by the Regional Assembly as an initiative considering emergency works installation of remaining pipe section.
Soler insisted that "it is necessary that in the 2015 Budget for sufficient budget allocation is being considered to comply with this agreement and execute the works as soon as possible."
Manuel Soler believes that irrigators can access the purchase of water in areas where there are surpluses and pipes to bring it up Lorca;
"If the government does not authorize such purchases, as it did previously, rejecting in part the request of Union Irrigation, 20.5 hm3 requested that only authorized the purchase 7 hm3, is failing in its commitment made to irrigators under the condition that these will approve the MEMO "he said.
Source: PSOE Lorca
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