He water starred in much of the economic dialogue organized by the People’s Party between José María Aznar, President of the Government of Spain between 1996 and 2004, and Fernando Lopez Mirasregional president and popular candidate for the regional elections on May 28. “I pay the political cost,” said Aznar in reference to the decision to carry out the National Hydrological Planwhich included the transfer of the Ebro that finally was forgotten with the arrival to the Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
“The integration of Spain is more important than three or four deputies in Congress,” he insisted. In this sense, he stressed that “Sharing what you have is essential for a Nation“because, “if you don’t share what you have, the Nation is endangering itself”. And Aznar added: “Sharing water makes a Nation, makes a country”.
For the former president, the decision made by the Executive of Zapatero not developing the PHN was “ideological” and pointed out that the drought problems that Spain is suffering at this time “would be resolved.”
Instead, he continued, the decision was made to “leave dry” the place where the greatest production of the agriculture Spanishmentioning the cutting of the Tajo-Segura Transfer.
“Melody for our ears”, affirmed the regional president, López Miras, before Aznar’s words. “No one bet so much on water policy like him, said the head of the Murcian Executive, who lamented that, “more than twenty years later, there has not been another National Hydrological Plan” like the one he did.
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“Those of us who receive the water from the Tajo-Segura transfer have been victims of some of the most sectarian decisions and I would say that, even premeditated, by the Government of Sánchez, when water is the energy that moves the most important industry in Levante, so no I’m going to stand idly by in the face of this kind of water fundamentalism of Sánchez and Ribera“, pointed out Miras. He detailed, among the benefits that this transfer has had for the Region, the 300,000 jobs, the water that more than 2.5 million people receive in their homes and 70% of the fruit and vegetables that It is generated thanks to the Tagus-Segura.
He also highlighted that the water that stops reaching the Region due to the cut in the Transfer will end up reaching Portugala country that is investing in large areas of intensive crops.