“What belongs to everyone cannot be distributed based on the criteria of a few,” said Carlos Mazón, president of the Valencian Community, after signing the manifesto that he signed together with the president of the Region of Murcia, Fernando López Miras, in which a national water pact is demanded.
The head of the Consell and his Murcian counterpart have previously visited the infrastructure of the Tajo-Segura transfer, and have expressed their commitment to defend its maintenance, “with technical arguments and with rigor.”
The meeting has been scheduled on the eve of World Water Day, which will be celebrated tomorrow, March 22, and both leaders have agreed to denounce what they consider to be “ideological cuts in the flow” of the transfer “due to their harm to the agricultural sector, to the economy and the families of both regions who are being denied an essential right for their well-being and prosperity,” in the words of Carlos Mazón.
Both governments demand “equal treatment” with respect to other autonomies, as well as “water solidarity.” “It is a matter of resolving once and for all a need that belongs to everyone,” Mazón remarked, “without privileges or regrets.” In his opinion, this is an issue that affects Spain as a whole and “state issues are never a peripheral agenda.”
“We are risking the water of seven million Spaniards,” which includes Murcia and the Valencian Community, the head of the Consell told journalists, “who need calm, need pact, need rigor, so that there are State policies of truth, instead of the noise we are receiving.
Mazón has responded to the words of the president of Castilla La Mancha, Emiliano García Page, who this morning in Barcelona has warned him and López Miras that “if they continue pulling the rope” in their positions defending the Tajo-Segura Transfer , Castilla-La Mancha “will demand one hundred percent” of the five Supreme Court rulings won on the matter.
“I am not very in favor of sending us ‘messages’ or threats through the media towards the presidents of other communities, it seems to me that it is unnecessary, without even having listened to us,” replied the Valencian president. “I do not return the threat, I send you a message of cordiality, of calm dialogue, whenever you want, with rigor.” “We are here to solve problems, not to make them bigger,” he said.
Also the president of the Government of Aragon and leader of the regional ‘popular’, Jorge Azcón, has referred to the possible National Water Pact promoted by his party. He has categorically rejected a transfer of the Ebro: “I am not Pedro Sánchez, if I say no, it will be no. We will never support a transfer of the Ebro from a Government of Aragon that I preside over.”
On the other hand, Azcón has stressed the need to invest in water at least 40,000 million euros, a demand included in the ‘Declaration of Córdoba’, an agreement signed by the presidents of the autonomous communities governed by the PP on December 10. March.
He has reproached the Government of Spain, led by the socialist Pedro Sánchez, for not investing in hydraulic infrastructure, something that he has considered “the main problem that exists in our country” related to this resource.
