In recent days, some town councils have expressed complaints because their problems were not resolved requests for help to the Catalan Water Agency (ACA) in which they asked for money to carry out improvement works in the supply networks. Today, the Generalitat, to respond to everyone, has approved increase from 90 to 200 million euros aid destined to the local world to face the drought, with investments focused on a more responsible use of water.
The Minister of Climate Action, David Mascorthas detailed that they are already accumulating 880 applications from more than 700 locations. For this reason, the amount allocated to repair water leaks in municipal networks will increase to 120 million euros and not 50 as planned. The Government has had to increase the budget by 140% to meet the high demand.
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The other aid that is doubled is to mitigate and adapt to the consequences of climate change, subsidies that will now have a budget of 80 million euros, double what was planned. “We will respond to all requests In the next weeks. We have not delayed anything. We simply expanded the budget to be able to help everyone,” he noted. Mascort.
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Specifically, the councilor has stated that they will respond to requests that are associated with a project presented that is feasible. That is, the consistories must clarify in the application What are they trying to repair and how?. The ACA, in parallel, continues to advise municipalities to develop drought emergency plans. These documents should serve to save as much as possible when this phase is declared, expectedly in the first week of February.
With these expansions, the Government has already added nearly 560 million of euros to address the drought situation since the Special Drought Plan (PES) was activated in September 2021. In many cases, it is money that has been used to support farmers who have suffered crop losses.