The Community of Irrigators of Totana reports that yesterday, the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Environment authorized the subsidiary of it in water management, ACUAMED, signing an agreement with the Community of Irrigators Tajo-Segura de Totana the acquisition of 5 hm3 of desalinated water plant Eagles, to consume them within 12 months from June 15 this year for irrigation in 6900 have the Trasvase, which will benefit some 4,800 irrigators.
And, according to the Ministry yesterday, this decision is the lack of water resources suffering from the Segura basin is particularly affecting those communities of irrigators, such as Totana, which are highly dependent on the transfer Tajo Safe.
This community of irrigators requested the State Society, under Drought Royal Decrees approved by the Government, a supply of desalinated water on a provisional basis from the plant Eagles-Guadalentín.
A mechanism articulated in the aforementioned decrees Drought to provide temporary and precarious, volumes that are not currently being used by other users, as is the case of the 10 million m3 / year that the Commonwealth of Taibilla Channel has signed with Acuamed.
Thus, while the Commonwealth does not require water desalination Eagles-Guadalentín, you can use the production capacity allocated to it to meet other demands, provided that water distribution is consistent with the demands of current users .
The desalinated water will reach the irrigable area of ​​Totana through the main pipeline distribution of desalinated water in the valley of Guadalentín built by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment within the measures authorized by Decree Drought and he entered service last March.
This drive, which leads to the town of Totana, has a total length of 27 km and involved an investment of 20 million euros.
