Carlos Mazón has stated, after learning about Pedro Sánchez’s visit to the Torrevieja desalination plant this morning, that “it is a mistake to come to Alicante and not say a word about the Tajo-Seguro transfer; it is a mistake to resort to the desalination plant’s patch, it is an environmental mistake”. The Valencian president, who was not invited to participate in Sánchez’s event, pointed out that “it is a mistake to talk about solidarity when we are sending water through the transfer to Portugal that they do not need when in Alicante, Murcia and Almería we do not have what “it belongs to us.”
Mazón has also pointed out that “it is a mistake to talk about hydrological planning based on desalination, which is not sustainable, which is not environmental, because it is a mistake not to talk about the transfer.” And also that “it is a mistake to put 40 million trees that depend on the transfer at risk.”
The head of the Valencian Consell announced yesterday that next Monday he will demand that the vice president and minister for the Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, “immediately” eliminate the increase in the “political, not ecological” flows of 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 insisted that “we are right.” “We are not going to give up. We know that we are right in our views on water, others still have to prove it.” Regarding the Government’s ecological flow to the Tajo-Segura transfer, he 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 to exercise “our right to self-defense, which is not the same, is the opposite.”
