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Fulgencio Gil has also expressed his support "without fissures" to the request of the irrigators Lorca for the State Agricultural Infrastructure Corporation (SEIASA) to proceed with the series of works that Lorca farmers need for the modernization of consolidated irrigation of our municipal term

The Mayor of Lorca, Fulgencio Gil, attended this morning with the President of the Central Irrigation Union of the Tajo Segura Aqueduct (SCRATS), Luis Giménez, and the president of the Irrigation Community of Lorca, Juan Marín, to the placement of the allusive banner to the 40th anniversary of this transfer at the headquarters of the Community of Irrigators of Lorca.

Fulgencio Gil, during the ceremony, said that "the Tajo-Segura is not simply a water transfer, it is a channel of life, an example of coexistence and solidarity, a tool of authentic territorial structuring in Spain." Lorca are fully aware The importance of the water provided by the Tajo-Segura transfer, we want guarantees and security for our farmers and ranchers, if we want to have a competitive agri-food sector, we have to support our people. employment, opportunities for development and promotion of the economy ".

The Mayor of Lorca has stressed that "one of the issues that concerns us in a particular way is the treatment that can be given to farmers, irrigators and ranchers of our land, which, despite being suffering one of the worst droughts in the recent history of Spain, continue to generate jobs and constitute the main socio-economic engine of Lorca.Lorquinos will continue to demand the water we deserve, with which we create life, wealth and hope.To this end, the maintenance of the Tajo-Segura transfer is In fact, the story of Lorca is the story of the struggle for water, something that we carry inside and for which we are not going to stop demanding what belongs to us ".

Gil has stated that "Lorca defends the transfers, the desalination, the Public Water Bank and the interconnection with other basins, we need to maintain all possible alternatives because we lack water and we will not allow the pantry of Europe to dry. We ask for the Ebro Transfer, which is a State work, good for all Spaniards and common sense, since in any other country the transfer of the Ebro would already be done ".

The First Edil has indicated that "there is no town that saves and takes more care of water than Lorca." The situation that farmers, ranchers and irrigators of our city are suffering requires a reflection on the part of all public administrations, we need the achievement already of a National Water Pact that allows to offer security and certainty to our farmers Our municipality does not have water, our marshes are the driest in Europe, they do not have reserves and the existing water resources in the dams hardly give to cover the ecological minimum "

Support for the modernization of consolidated irrigation in our municipality

Fulgencio Gil has also expressed his support "without fissures" to the request of the irrigators Lorca for the State Agricultural Infrastructure Corporation (SEIASA) to proceed with the series of works that Lorca farmers need for the modernization of consolidated irrigation of our municipal term.

"We are talking about some works whose objective is to contribute to complete the total modernization of the irrigable areas.We have to take into account that the precise investment for this purpose is expected to reach 70 million, however the package of works that the irrigators Lorca need peremptorily around 50 ".

The Mayor of Lorca explained that "the works that irrigators demand from the SEIASA are justice, very necessary, and a commitment that must be met with our farmers." These actions are the most urgent, and have to do with the use of the resources available, in particular to continue advancing in the improvement of infrastructures, we are talking about the construction of irrigation ponds, reservoirs, canalizations and impulses necessary to modernize 12,500 hectares of our consolidated irrigation ".

Gil added that "this country has to be aware of the special importance of the investments made to meet the needs of our farmers, now is the time for the State administration to do its part and face the needs that the sector presents ".

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca