The Circle for Water has carried out this morning a tract in the municipalities of Albatera, Elche, Orihuela, Pilar de la Horadada, Los Montesinos and Torrevieja. In the day of San isidro labrador, patron of farmers, the protesters have shown their most absolute rejection of the plans of the Ministry for Ecological Transition to end the Diversion through changes in the exploitation rules and increase the ecological flows of the Tagus.
These acts of protest, Under the motto “In the Levante, without desert transfer and unemployment“have also been held in the provinces of Murcia Y Almeria. Farmers and irrigators point out that the importance of the Tajo-Segura water for this area is one of “survival”.
Orihuela It has been one of the axes of the battery of mobilizations with the largest deployment of vehicles and people. Thus, around 500 tractors and 800 vehicles have paraded in the capital of Vega Baja, in addition to hundreds of people on foot. These acts of protest in the provinces of Alicante, Murcia and Almería will culminate in a great march by car to Madrid, the next May 24.
The spokesperson for the Circle of Water in Alicante and president of ASAJA Alicante, Eladio Aniorte declares that farmers will not allow the Ministry of Ecological Transition to cut water from the transfer in exchange for desalinated water, which says, it is not useful for watering because its price is very high. He also criticizes that this decision was taken unilaterally by the Ministry.
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“Spain and Europe they have the right to know what this government is doing with water. It is not possible to regionalize a basic resource for life and that is not owned by the territories, nor by the autonomous communities, nor by their presidents, nor by the hydrographic confederations, but is a essential resource which must be managed efficiently, respectful of the environment and only attending to technical and general interest criteria. If an ecological flow has to be protected, it is the river Segura, the basin with the most deficit in Spain “has declared Aniorte.
For his part, the president of the Alicante Provincial Council, Carlos Mazon, who has attended this act of protest in the Vega Baja, calls on the Central Government to defend the Environment protecting the true “vegetable garden of Europe“.
“We are supporting our irrigators in one of the tracts that will be remembered the most in recent times in the defense of the transfer,” said the president, who assured that today “we are not only defending the livelihood of our people, their present and their future, but we are defending everyone’s food, because here it is made farming, with more than 40 million trees that will help us fight for the future, “said Mazón.
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In this sense, the president of the Alicante Provincial Council has insisted on the idea that the environment, the ecology and the sustainability “They are in the ecological flow that is the Segura, because it is here where we have to defend the green of our fruit trees and crops. The true environment, the true ecological reserve are here, in the orchard of Europe, in the Vega Baja, in Murcia and Almería “has concluded Mazón.
The Minister of Agriculture, Mireia Mollà, who has participated in the protest in Elche, has asked that Spanish society “recognize the role of agriculture” and has valued that, just a week before the state of alarm was declared, the food industry “I was on the street demanding fair prices and saying that the Spanish primary sector is in a critical situation.”
“The pandemic stopped everything and now we return to the same situation. Agriculture has been essential for the maintenance of families and 80% of what we produce feeds Europe,” he defended, and pointed out that it is a sector “strategic”, so the Central government “You have to listen to it.”
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