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The councilor of this training, Gloria Martín, asks for "impulse" and "funding" to the City Council and the Ministry of Water and Agriculture that runs the former mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jódar.
"Solidarity must also be practiced within our own territory," said the mayor of IU-Greens
Through a motion of Municipal Plenary, the Councilor of the United Left-Greens, Gloria Martín, will ask the PP local government team to undertake a project to capture and store rainwater in the Highlands of Lorca, in order to Reuse them for horticultural irrigation.
The mayor of IU-Greens expressed his hope that the project will have the necessary momentum and funding from the City Council and the Ministry of Water and Agriculture of the Region of Murcia, which is headed by the former mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jódar.
"The requirement of solidarity that the PP does with respect to water must be transferred within our own territory, where they must let irrigators of first and second," he said.
Martin explained that according to the Water Law, the irrigated area of ​​the Highlands of Lorca should have water resources of 3,600 m3 / ha / year when, in reality, barely receives 900 m3 / ha / year.
Part of that endowment is intended for the maintenance of animal farms so that, finally, farmers of the districts of the north of Lorca only have about 700 m3 / ha / year to carry out their crops.
The mayor of IU-Verdes reported that one hectare of olive needs a water supply of 1,600 m3 / year, one of almonds 2,000 m3 / year and one of thyme 1,300 m3 / year.
Taking these data into account, the traditional and ecological crops of the area "are practically unfeasible," Martín said.
Therefore, with the aim of solving the calamitous situation of irrigators in the Highlands of Lorca and their families, and as it does not address the implementation of a plan for economic diversification of this natural region, afflicted by high rates of Unemployment and the phenomenon of depopulation, "it is urgent to implement methods of catching water that, at the same time, do not harm the weak subsurface reservoirs, few and highly salinized," said Martin.
For IU-Greens collection of rainwater collection is configured as an effective and economically viable alternative to address the scarcity of water resources in the area that would also prevent runoff occurring during occasional storms in the area At certain times of the year.
"It is important that our municipality incorporates, strategically, techniques of use of the pluvial resource that have been perfected over time and that are essential, in the absence of other solutions, to cover the needs of agricultural production," said the mayor.
According to the calculations made by the Campo Alto Irrigation Community, the start-up of a rainwater harvesting network would increase the water supply by 70,000 m3 / year in La Paca alone, 200,000 m3 / year if it is extended to all Towns in the area.
It is, Martín said, of a project "linked to an ecological and sustainable agriculture that bets on the conservation of the landscape and, more important, is vitally important to revitalize the economy of the area and fix the population to the territory slowing The exodus of neighbors and neighbors ".
Source: IU-verdes Lorca
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