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Date Published: 16/09/2022
ARCHIVED - Murcia rails against Spanish government for turning off its water supplies
Spain’s Ministry for Ecological Transition has cut off additional irrigation water to Murcia for the month of September
The regional government in Murcia has criticised a decision by the Government of Spain “not to send water resources to the Levante for irrigation”, authorising only a transfer of 7.5 cubic hectometres for urban consumption from the reservoirs of Entrepeñas and Buendía through the Tajo-Segura aqueduct.
This is far lower than the 20 cubic hectometres recommended by the Central Commission for the Exploitation of the Tajo-Segura Aqueduct, according to Murcia’s Minister of Water, Antonio Luengo. The Minister alleged that over the last four years, the Levante area has received 137.9 fewer cubic hectometres from the Tajo-Segura than it should have done due to “sectarian and political decisions”.
Faced with a situation of water scarcity, the Ministry of Ecological Transition in Spain’s central government has decided to reduce the water being supplied to the Cuenca del Segura for the purposes of watering agricultural land for the month of September.
In a statement, the Ministry said, “The decision has taken into account the reserves of volumes of transferred water available in the Segura basin, the authorised volumes pending transfer on September 1, the forecast of contributions for the coming months, the estimated future consumption of supply and irrigation and the application of the rule for the next six months.”
While Murcia produces much of the fruit and vegetables for the rest of Spain and to be exported internationally, and as such sorely needs irrigation water for the sake of its economy, farmers around the Campo de Cartagena have come under fire and many of them been banned from watering their crops due to nitrates and fertilisers washing off from their farms and into the Mar Menor protected lagoon.
Antonio Luengo has hit back against the Spanish government’s move, saying “It is something as incomprehensible as it is unjustified, a new attack that goes against tens of thousands of professionals in the agricultural sector and the agri-food industry… against the economic, social and environmental development of the Region of Murcia.”
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