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The square of Spain of San Javier today hosted an act of support for the Tajo-Segura Transfer coinciding with its 40th anniversary to "claim what has been a model of equality and of Spain's backbone" said Mayor José Miguel Luengo, who highlighted the exemplary of the local irrigators sector that has generated 173 companies and creates 3000 jobs in the municipality of San Javier.
The act, in which an allusive banner was displayed on the facade of the City Council, counted with the participation of the Minister of Water, Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Miguel Ángel del Amor;
the general director of Water, Sebastián Delgado;
the president of the Community of Irrigators of the Campo de Cartagena and trustees, Manuel Martínez and the president of the Central Union of Irrigators of the Tajo-Segura Aqueduct (Scrats), Lucas Jiménez, to which the mayor handed over an institutional plaque in recognition of the work of the Syndicate and its irrigators.
Carmen Sicilia, the Caliche group was in charge of reading a joint manifesto before a large presence of farmers from the municipality and neighbors who supported the Tajo-Segura Transfer with an act in which "we must continue to claim this infrastructure, its maintenance and its conservation, as a solidarity and structuring element, generator of employment and as an example of what engineering can do for our future ".
José Miguel Luengo had a memory "for the Sanjaviereños who gave the best of themselves, over the years, to convert an arid land into an agricultural model, an example, nowadays, of care and respect for the environment, adapting to the times and always at the forefront in the optimization of available water resources ".
The president of the Central Union of Irrigators of the Tajo-Segura Aqueduct, Lucas Jiménez said that "the arrival 40 years ago of the waters of the Transfer has meant an improvement in the quality of life of the entire general population."
Jimenez stressed that the commemorative banner has no ideological content and called for the unity of all in the defense of the transfer "that has been so important for the Spanish Levante regions."
The counselor Miguel Angel of Love thanked the initiative of the City of San Javier and highlighted the massive accessions that both Murcia, Almeria and Alicante is having this celebration of the transfer, "an infrastructure that provides more than 2300 million euros to the Gross Domestic Product and that with its 44 million trees it also becomes a C02 sink ".
Miguel Ángel del Amor thanked the farmers for their presence at the event held this morning in San Javier in which he highlighted the role of the regional government as "the main supporter of the Transfer".
The act ended with a free distribution of vegetables donated by several of the agrifood companies of the municipality.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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