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Urgently consider installing 27 km of pipe in order to consume the 23 hm3 that irrigators have bought the Eagles Desalination Plant.

Acting Spokesman of the Municipal Group Socialist Manuel Soler alert "shortage of water for irrigation in the town of Lorca produced by modifying the operating rules of the Tajo Segura".

In this sense, Soler Miras said that "irrigators can not buy enough water from other basins despite the Government of Spain a Royal Decree of Drought been approved for the Segura Basin which does not provide that option."

The Socialists ask again "to clarify whether the 23 million euros that are published in the Official Gazette, referred to as actions related to drought, will go to the installation of the pipeline will lead desalinated water from the raft Cerro Colorado to the irrigated lands Guadalentín "while calling for" the technical conditions to be negotiated with the Community of Irrigators of Lorca ".

Soler Miras has held that "it is urgent installation of 27 km of pipe left to serve with the desalinated water to all 23,000 ha of irrigated Lorca, plus 3 shots and 7 rafts necessary to establish the pumping enough so that the Community Irrigation can serve water to the irrigators at the lowest possible cost. "

At the same time, the Socialist spokesman in the necesariedad functions indicated by "that a study be carried out by technicians CHS according to irrigation communities, so that the pipe needs to be installed is of sufficient dimension, sockets and rafts to distribute all the water that corresponds to the municipalities of Lorca, Puerto Lumbreras and Totana, the latter including in the immediate future for the Paretón consolidated and Raiguero irrigation ".

Therefore, Soler regrets that "the various governments of the Popular Party are punishing farmers in the Segura Basin cutting water deliveries Tagus. We are at level three under the new rules adopted by the executive of PP only You can log-shipped 20 hm3 per month to meet the needs of supply and irrigation, so continuing drought Lorca irrigators will have this water year with 20 hm3 of water from the TTS less than the previous, with consequent losses that this will entail. It is time that the popular Lorca claiming solutions to their superiors, who remember govern in all regions involved and the Government of Spain and three years have not been able to implement actions to alleviate the drought in our land, but everything otherwise ".

In this sense and, finally, from the Municipal Socialist Group warn of "teasing the government ruled by the Popular Party are doing on the irrigators del Segura", to which added "first promise them that the agreements Memorandum stability Tajo Segura be guaranteed, when the reality is that a loss of rights they already had, which have been reduced with the new rules of exploitation of the Tajo Segura covered by the new legislation, through no stocks trasvasables in the headwaters of the Tagus of 260-400 hm3. They then approve a Royal Decree of Drought where buying water from other basins are not regarded as if it is authorized in situations of previous drought with a socialist government. In this way they condemn Lorca irrigators to divide the miseries resulting from water shortage. In short, years of unfulfilled promises, in exchange for votes, that leave the agricultural sector at risk due to the lack of commitment of the authorities responsible to assure the watering as we are suing farmers Lorca and Murcia. "

Source: PSOE Lorca