Totana City Council chartered free buses will depart at 9:00 pm from the Plaza of the Constitution
The First Deputy Mayor and Councillor for Agriculture and Water, Andrés García, today made a public appeal to irrigators and neighbors of Totana in general to attend the convened concentration for tomorrow at the gates of the Hydrographic Confederation of Segura (CHS) by some organizations and agricultural unions in order to claim the necessary water resources for totanero field and the region over the next hydrological year.
The municipal government supports unconditionally claims for which have been struggling communities of irrigators and farmers' unions so that all farmers have water for their crops;
so the Consistory totanero free buses chartered, as it did two weeks ago to march scheduled in front of the Regional Assembly, so that they will leave at 9:00 am from the square of the Constitution of the town.
From the Department of Agriculture and Water it is they encourage all those who are interested and sensitized to this issue to come to the concentration next Tuesday and recalled that the measures approved by the Ministry of Agriculture sending 300 cubic meters per hectare are merely transitional and useful until September 30 only.
The councilman said that if the forecasts remain existing water, "farmers can not make their winter plantings" and reiterated that 32hay to go to claim our rights because at stake is our future. "
Moreover, he added that "the Bureau of Water and its president are not defending the interests of the irrigators or doing nothing to support the claims" and regretted that the Community of Irrigators of Totana not do it.
He also said that "it is trying to confuse irrigators Totana by the fact that they have made a small contribution of 300,000 cubic meters per municipality until September 30, when this circumstance only they will take advantage of community members and businesses large reservoirs ".
He advocated that farmers "are not entertain" planting now and then not going to make irrigation and stressed the need to mobilize to demand the resources needed by the countryside of Murcia.
Andrés García bet that they are made up water banks and interbasin transfers are made, require the implementation of desalination plants, run infrastructure to bring water to deficit areas and fix a deal for the price plan of desalination plants is equal for all irrigators.
