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Councilman IU-Green Lorca, Pedro Sosa, today demanded the local government team to defend the interests of farmers of the Community of Irrigators "Campo Alto" whose holdings are at risk of disappearance to the existing obstacles in order to have water for irrigation.

Sosa recalled that is 430 hectares of crops, predominantly organic, of three hundred families living in the districts north of Lorca.

"They're basically family farms and have been characterized by its social and environmental sustainability," he said Councilman IU-Verdesquien has criticized the lack of commitment of the government team of Mayor Francisco Jodar to solve a problem that, for example " you are finished with half almond production in a single year. "

In that sense, he lamented the lack of solidarity of the governing board of the Community Irrigation Lorca, repeatedly, he has agreed to report to the Directorate General of Environment of the Community of Irrigators Campo Alto by water extraction La Paca spring.

"The amount that the villagers Highland obtained from derisory llamadoCanalilloes when compared with the volumes of water that are used in Lorca orchard," said Sosa, for whom it is "inconceivable" ask solidarity Castilla La Mancha "when no you are able to practice it among the neighbors. "

Pedro Sosa recalled that the known comoCanalilloestaba abandoned and unused since 1973 and, according to the Water Commissioner of the Hydrographic Confederation of Segura, "Mingrano not affect the aquifer located in the nearby hamlet of El Rincon, or the mass of Valdeinfierno swamp water, or any other condition involves existing and legalized "uses.

Therefore Jodar has asked to mediate with the basin organization that their holding will be definitively granted to the Community of Irrigators "Campo Alto".

It is up to 250,000 cubic meters with the villagers get water sustituiríanel of only two wells at their disposal and are highly salinated.

"It is a matter of sheer survival of the poor economy is still moving in the districts high Lorca," said Sosa, who has called for investment in this area, the most depressed of the municipality, to stop depopulation and improve the conditions of life of its inhabitants.

Source: IU-verdes Lorca