Next Monday, Carlos Mazón will demand that the vice president and minister for the Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, “immediately” eliminate the increase in “political, not ecological” flows from the Tajo-Segura transfer. “There have been thirty cuts against the criteria of the ministry’s technicians,” commented the Valencian president, who added that “I don’t want to get into any water war, but I have the right to legitimate defense. Ecological flow, yes, but for all the rivers of Spain”.
Monday’s appointment occurs days after the ministry has planned the transfer of water from the Sagunt desalination plant to Catalonia next summer if the drought persists in this autonomy. “I am going to the meeting with rigor, not with a political or ideological demand. With the serenity of raising the discourse to try to solve the water problem and contribute our proposal. We have seen that we get nothing from the clash, but neither from surrender.” , according to Mazón.
The Valencian president has insisted that “we are right.” “We are not going to give up,” he warned. “We know that we are right in our approaches to water, others still have to prove it.” Regarding the Government’s ecological flow to the Tajo-Segura transfer, he has assessed that “it cannot be called an ecological reserve, which is very cute, when it is political. It is unearthing the battle ax of water, and what we do in the Valencian Community is exercising our right to self-defense, which is not the same, it is the opposite.”
Mazón has made this announcement after meeting with representatives of the main Valencian agricultural organizations and has announced that at that meeting, which he said he has been waiting “practically” all his life for water to be one of the “fights” of his political career in The Valencian Community will have a “very clear and very demanding” agenda around the water problem.
Likewise, he regretted that the Presidency has no official record of the visit that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, will make this Wednesday to Torrevieja (Alicante) to see its desalination plant: “I am not aware that he has informed us of that visit or the purpose of the visit”. “I would have been grateful to know” and “accompany” Sánchez on that appointment, Mazón said, “but that was not the case.”
Regarding next Monday’s meeting with Vice President Ribera, he added that “what is happening with water does not have a pass”, he defended that the Valencian Community is “up to the task” of what it deserves and has announced that it will convey to Ribera the “deep and serene discomfort with the Government in general and the minister in particular over the Tajo-Segura transfer.” And he will also do so because of the “ideological concept of water treatment in Spain” that leaves the Community “especially harmed,” the president has assured.
