Council insists “this will not stop” until the final La Colada connection “is completed”

In this sense and during a press conference with the territorial delegate of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development, Francisco Acosta, Molina explained that after his suspension in 2009, the government of Juanma Moreno took over this project declaring it of interest to the Community in 2020, and it has already been awarded to the Cordoba company Jícar for a value of 9.3 million euros.

“The definitive connection project to La Colada is necessary, because we must avoid supply cuts, high costs linked to current pumping and lack of flow,” insisted Molina.

Threat of veto from the Guadiana Confederation

The Authority’s representative in Cordoba provided various data to illustrate what the commissioning of this connection represents. Hydrographic Confederation of GuadianaMore precisely, its president, Samuel Moraleda, threatened to veto it, denouncing duplicity with the provisional connection that the state undertook in 2023 in the middle of a drought. In fact, last week there was a technical meeting with the project on the table for study by the basin organization which must now authorize this action.

Adolfo Molina clarified, in this sense, and as ABC has already argued, that, “respecting the infrastructure of the current connection, will increase the flow of the pumping station from 400 liters per second to 600, by increasing the number of pumps and leaving one pump on standby to ensure supply in the event of a breakdown.

Furthermore, “it will be necessary to power line with sufficient capacity, three MW, to reduce the operating energy cost by more than half and achieve electrical redundancy, with the project of also increasing the water intake points, connecting the two existing points in the tower of water intake itself.

For Molina, “it is neither the time for vetoes nor the time for ideologies. Neither the Commission is duplicating the project, nor these works have any economic impact on citizens, because the money has already been collected based on the water fee. Therefore, anyone who does not commit to ending this injustice, at least do not bother. »

Hydraulic works budget figures

On the other hand, the delegate of the Andalusian Government in Cordoba highlighted the “firm commitment of Junta of Andalusia with Córdoba, reflected in the 2025 budgets, which allocate a total of 133 million euros to our province in key areas such as agriculture, water and rural development.

Of this amount, 95 percent will be allocated to investments that will boost agricultural and livestock production, as well as critical infrastructure such as water projects and rural revitalization programs. In addition, the delegate indicated that the budget also includes 52 million euros for hydraulic infrastructure, with projects such as sewage treatment plants and discharge groups andn La Rambla, Montalbán, La Carlota and Ruteas well as the renovation of the Pozoblanco STEP.

He Route planwith 23 projects planned, will be another pillar of this department and will serve to strengthen sustainable agriculture and animal welfare, while an additional 32 million will be allocated to the organic sector, 14 million to rural development and 21 million to processing and to the marketing of agricultural products, explained the delegate of the Andalusian Government.