The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, assured this Wednesday that the Executive “has been working and will continue to do so, from the point of view of social and territorial commitment, to guarantee the supply of water both for human consumption and also for irrigation. of our field.”
During his visit to the Acuamed desalination plant in Alicante, he guaranteed that the Executive will act “with social and territorial commitment, with conviction, with determination and without hiding behind jurisdictional excuses and collaborating with all those territories and with all those administrations that request it to guarantee Water”.
“Whether in Catalonia or Andalusia, that is, “wherever it is necessary,” said Sánchez from “the largest desalination plant in all of Europe and it will be even more so when the expansion works are completed,” he highlighted.
Sánchez stressed that the Government “gives the highest priority to water policies to combat drought and consequently to be able to mitigate and adapt to the real effects of climate change.”
In this context, the president presented the “three principles” that guide action against drought: solidarity, planning and science. This led him to affirm that the lack of water “is not a problem of one or another autonomous community” or of “one or another territory”, but rather that “drought concerns us all, it affects us all because if a part of Our country suffers the consequences, in the end we are all suffering.”
On the other hand, he recalled the measures that the Executive has been “promoting” since 2018 and how resources are being “poured” to update the water situation and praised the 23,000 million euros of investment to face drought scenarios, articulated in a set of more than 6,000 actions already announced by the person responsible for this matter, the third vice president and minister for the Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera.
Sánchez highlighted that Spain is the European leader, “number one in production of desalinated water” and “also number one, fourth worldwide, in installed capacity with a treated water production of nearly 5 million cubic meters per year.” day.
For all this, the president stressed that “planning, solidarity and science in the face of denialism is necessary to face one of the greatest challenges we have as a country, also in the primary sector, such as drought to mitigate and adapt to the effects.” of climate change.”
