Members of the municipal corporation, municipal workers and neighbors have participated this morning of the five-minute strike that has been held at the door of the City Council in support of the irrigators of Murcia, Almeria and Alicante who at the same time were demonstrating in Madrid in lawsuits of solutions to the lack of water resources.
While the mayor of San Javier José Miguel Luengo and the councilman of Agriculture Sergio Martinez moved to Madrid to accompany the farmers of the municipality in the demonstration, in San Javier, the spokesman of the government team, Carlos Albaladejo read the Levantine Manifesto Water, identical to the one defended in Madrid.
In the manifesto, prepared by the conveners, an appeal is made to the whole country on "the situation of extreme gravity that the Levantine orchard lives", and warns of the danger of desertification, since the drought affects more than forty-four million of trees, as well as the "disappearance of a productive model on which 23 percent of the economy of our regions depends".
The manifesto requests solutions such as the durability of the Tajo-Segura Aqueduct, and aims at improvements in the desalination plants, the use of reclaimed water, the transfer of rights and modernization of irrigation, as well as the execution of hydraulic works necessary to guarantee access to water. water, irrigation and supply, under conditions of equality for all citizens of the country.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier