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Santiago de la Ribera today welcomed the inauguration of the "Water that unites us" campaign promoted by the Central Syndicate of Irrigators Tajo Segura Aqueduct with which farmers claim the transfer with their "friendlier face" according to its president Lucas Jimenez.
The campaign, which will continue to tour the beaches of the Region of Murcia, and the provinces of Alicante and Almeria, belonging to the Tajo Segura transfer demarcation, aims to raise awareness of the importance of the transfer of information, games for children And a gift of fruit "that is the result of the water that we transferred", explained the representative of the irrigators.
The mayor of San Javier, José Miguel Luengo was the host of this first meeting of the campaign, which was attended by the president of the Autonomous Community Fernando López Miras, Regional Assembly President Rosa Peñalver, the Minister of Agriculture, Francisco Jódar, and PSRM-PSOE secretary general Rafael González Tovar, who showed their support for the irrigators' demands and expressed their support for consensus and dialogue in order to reach a national agreement that would provide solutions to the situation of lack of Water that suffers the Region.
The president of the Region of Murcia, Fernando López Miras, who declared himself "a trasvasista president with a trasvasista government" considered "Trasvase Tajo Segura," which generates 300,000 jobs, and produces 70% of the vegetables and 30% Of the fruits that exports Spain ", although he added that" we have to go for more ".
López Miras recalled that in Spain every year 80,000 cubic hectometres of water are thrown into the sea and he advocated "an infrastructure that will carry the water from where it is left to where it is missing."
The president murcia defended a national agreement of the water "from the consensus and the dialogue" that solves not only the water deficit of the Region of Murcia but of all the territory that suffers shortage.
Lopez Miras appealed to solidarity and responsibility.
"It is not a question of taking water from anyone but of making a country by taking water from Spain to Spain" and rejected the comparisons between regions "that generate division".
The general secretary of the Murcia socialists Rafael González Tovar added to the demands of the irrigators and he was in favor of a national agreement of the water that in response to a shortage that is solved "with planning and with the necessary investment".
The event was attended by a wide representation of the organizing union as well as producers in the area, some of whom have collaborated with the contribution of the products that this morning were given to the public that passed by the stand of the campaign located in the esplanade Barnuevo.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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