The president of the Provincial Council of Alicante, Toni Pérezinaugurated this morning in Orihuela the VI National Water Congress during which he highlighted the “extraordinary management of water resources” carried out in Vega Baja, describing the government as Pedro Sanchez “public enemy number one of the province of Alicante” for his water policy.
In this sense, he underlined that of sixteen transfers currently active in Spain “Only one is being questioned.” “It is not acceptable that a single transfer, the Tajo-Segura, suffers cuts after cuts in a virulent way because of bad public policy, bad politicians,” said Toni Pérez, who accused the Central Executive and in particular the Minister of Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, “for not being up to the task in political matters”.
During the inauguration of this congress, promoted by the Provincial Council, the University of Alicante and the Town Hall of Orihuela and which, in this edition, focuses the debate on the importance of water for agriculture and foodthe president of the provincial institution defended the need for public administrations to guarantee “a sufficient quantity of water at an affordable price for all territories, because we cannot allow the desert to enter Spain through the Vega Baja , thus leading to the ruin of thousands of families.” .
The president, who was accompanied by the vice-president and representative of the Water Cycle, Ana Sernaalso referred to the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals, “programs that in no way speak of cutting transfers or ‘strangling’ farmers with a water policy that prevents the arrival of water.”
Furthermore, Toni Pérez In his speech, he defended “the extraordinary and relevant water management carried out on our lands, and specifically in the Vega Baja, which is the great pantry of Europe”, and highlighted that the work of thousands of farmers “allows us to offer healthy, healthy and local food to everyone.
In this regard, he added that “this type of meeting should also serve us to tell the world that this region and the entire province of Alicante manage the entire water cycle effectively and efficiently thanks to the sweat of thousands of farmers”, based on good governance. on scientific rigor and significant investment.
He 6th National Water Congress, which will continue until tomorrow with nearly 40 scheduled presentations, opened by the intervention of the director of the Euro-Mediterranean Water Institute Foundation, Francisco Cabezasto address the relationship between water, agriculture and food.
Planning and management, infrastructure, socio-economic and legal assessment and technologies are the blocks in which this event has been structured, which addresses issues such as drought, drip irrigation, regenerative agriculture, resource paper unconventional in irrigation, water and energy, technological land development, new efficient irrigation systems, circular water or digitalization in the agronomic field, among others.
