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The Councilor for Agriculture will present a motion at the next regular plenary session urging the Government of Spain to compensate the Irrigators Community for all the economic expenses that it has been forced to assume due to the break in the desalination plant.
The Councilor for Agriculture in the City of Lorca, Angel Mecca, has reported that the Government Team will request the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the extension of the decree of drought for the Segura basin for next year, considering as a priority action and urgent the construction of a reservoir of desalinated water reserve of between 500,000 m3 and 1,000,000 m3, as demanded by the Community of Irrigators of Lorca.
The Minister of Agriculture has anticipated that he also plans to demand the Confederación Hidrográfica del Segura (CHS) and Acuamed to compensate for the water that the desalination plant stops producing while the actions to solve its break are extended.
This compensation, out of pure common sense, should be computed to the next hydrological year.
Angel Meca said that from the City Council is going to propose in the next full urging the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to compensate economically all the extraordinary expenses that have been in the obligation to respond to the Community of Irrigators of Lorca consequence of the breakage of the desalination plant.
The Edil de Agricultura has pointed out that Lorca and the Guadalentín valley can not be understood without their agriculture and livestock, constituting these sectors as their main socioeconomic engine and generating jobs.
These are strong and dynamic sectors, with a capacity for resilience that has allowed them to adapt to any context, overcoming crisis, scarcity of resources and other issues that have come up.
Its success is due, without doubt, to the commendable effort and daily sacrifice by the thousands of men and women who continually deploy all their know-how, determination and effort to make agriculture and livestock an authentic work of art.
We are talking about farmers and ranchers in our region, which provide us with high quality products and food security, regardless of the employment and wealth they generate daily.
Lorca has raised its power as head of county and subregional capital having as a foundation precisely the work that takes place in our fields.
The primary sector Lorca is leading and recognized worldwide.
Our agricultural professionals have been able to conquer markets anywhere in the world, ratifying their competitive nature over public aid, adapting to as many standards and quality protocols as they are imposed, even in situations of unfair unfair competition with third countries. those that do not require the same impositions of quality or security.
We must remember that the Hydrological Planning of the Segura Basin 2015-2021, developed as a result of the application of the Directive Framework of Water (Directive 2000/60 / CE), established that we belong to a deficit basin, placing this deficit at 460 hectómetros cubic, an evidence suffered by our farmers and ranchers, and recently denied by the Government of Spain, in statements that have generated a deep malaise in the sector.
It is worth remembering that in 2015 the Central Government approved a decree of drought for the Segura basin, which included a series of emergency actions.
One of the most outstanding was the construction of the desalinated water distribution pipeline, from the foothills of Cerro Colorado (in our municipality) to the neighboring town of Totana.
The construction of this conduction allows the distribution of water from the Águilas desalination plant.
It is a channel connected to the reservoir of the aforementioned Lorca enclave, whose storage capacity is, at least, very small.
We must remember that last July 27 there was a serious break in the desalination plant of Águilas, a breakdown that left without irrigation water supply to Lorca farmers, as well as those of several neighboring municipalities.
This fact generated great concern to the producers of the agri-food sector belonging to the consolidated irrigation of Lorca, since many of them had no other source of water supply than the aforementioned raft of Cerro Colorado, whose storage limitation was again evident when it was exhausted. your reservation in a matter of hours.
This eventuality revealed the expertise and good work of the Community of Irrigators Lorca, which immediately went to work to offer our farmers an alternative to prevent their fields from drying out.
In this way they proceeded to invert the usual sense of water circulation in their networks, thus allowing water to be supplied to the main distribution network.
Thanks to this, a great quantity of crops has been saved.
This transitory alternative does not constitute a sustainable solution, at the same time as it evidences the need to increase the storage capacity of the Cerro Colorado reservoir.
According to the indications of the technicians, it should have at least 500,000 m3 of storage to respond satisfactorily and avoid putting the plantations at risk in the event of a new break in the facilities of Águilas.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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