The Mayor of Totana, María Isabel Sánchez, met with the Deputy Director General of Planning and Sustainable Use of Water, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Victor Manuel Arqued skiing, in order to open doors seeking support and commitment to decide the case of consolidated risks in this municipality.
At the meeting, which was accompanied by the Councillor for Agriculture, Diego Muñoz, realized the work being done by the Community Irrigation Totana, with support from the City Council to ask the Segura basin recognition and legalization of consolidated irrigation irrigation in Totana.
This request, which was submitted at the time officially in the CHS, answers to common action led by the City Council, Community Irrigation, farmers, unions, SAT's to convert rainfed areas of Totana irrigated, providing them due to the volumes of water in order to solve the old problem of consolidated land irrigation.
Through the Plan of the Segura Basin Plan since its adoption, it is expected to stabilize the consolidated grown before and after 1998.
The aim, with the institutional support of the City, as recalled by the Mayor of Totana, María Isabel Sánchez, is to increase the additional volume and convert dry land into irrigated with a corresponding provision of water, all using as a partner at the Community Irrigation Totana.
Furthermore, it aims to demand an expansion in the provision of water by a liberalization of transfers to cover the real surface in order to find other water resources through water desalination, disposal of other provincial irrigation communities boundary, the sewage reservoir and its extension and future reservoirs collection of the boulevards Totana.
The grounds are listed rainfed cultivated but aspire to be declared irrigated by the CHS with appropriate water allocations.
