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The Popular Party has filed a motion in the June plenary session to urge the Ministry of Agriculture to approve the Plan of the Segura Basin urgently and as soon as possible to enable the regularization of consolidated record of irrigation in the town of Totana.
The motion also calls for measures to minimize arbitrate or suspend the damages which have resulted in the failure of the adoption of the Segura Basin Plan, scheduled for 2009.
In addition, institutional support requests show Totana Town Hall to the Community of Irrigators of this town and our farmers to continue working and generating wealth and jobs as a mainstay of the productive economy of our town.
The Council's Water Segura River Basin, formed late last year 2013 in Murcia, and issued a favorable report on the proposed draft Basin Hydrological Plan of the Segura 2009/2015.
Also agreed submission to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment to continue processing.
The draft Plan was approved almost unanimously, with a total of 73 votes in favor, one abstention and one vote against the association Ecologists in Action of the Region of Murcia, which is a support of 99 percent, reflecting the unity and consensus reached by the various representatives of the river basin district, competent government (state, regions and local authorities), users and organizations and associations defending environmental, economic and social interests.
Specifically, the draft National Water Plan sets out the general lines of the management of water resources in the basin of the Segura in the coming years and includes the need to reconcile the protection and recovery of the natural values ​​of the basin with the satisfaction of irrigation demand and maintain economic and social value associated with existing irrigation is one of the major objectives of this plan.
Despite the great progress that has been made in the Segura basin measures of modernization of irrigation and water savings, as well as treatment and reuse of wastewater and desalination, the document sets the water deficit in the Segura basin 480 cubic are.
The Plan development process included a public information period which resulted in 133 claims submitted to amend or supplement the original text.
As a means to promote active participation, the Confederation also organized a series of sectoral and regional tables where participants could ask for feedback directly to the editors of the planning document;
and also participated in the city of Totana.
Thus, the proposed Plan could be enriched with the different perspectives of stakeholders and the number of claims has decreased, facilitating compliance with deadlines in submitting the project.
The first round of water planning performed in accordance with the Water Framework Directive of the European Union, is almost complete, with the exception of the Plans corresponding to the Canary districts, and lack of administrative procedures and the latest publication in the Official Gazette Decree approving the plans of the Tagus, and Júcar Segura, who have already received a favorable report from the National Water Council Royals.
Is requested urgently because this Plan had to be made and approved in 2009 has led to the instituting proceedings in the consolidated risks of Totana.
With this, the economy would be affected by Totana be the agriculture one of the pillars, or most, of our economy.
Failure to approve the Basin Plan has meant that the record regularization of consolidated risks can not be resolved because the work is not done.
Once approved the Basin Plan, the case brought by the Irrigation Community Totana to regularize the consolidated risks continue their final stages for formal conversion as land irrigation.
Source: PP Totana
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