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About 150 irrigators yesterday celebrated the II General Board constituent of the Community of Regents of Valdelentisco in the Municipal Center of the hamlet of the Martinez del Puerto, an act attended by the mayor of Murcia, who transmitted to the irrigators his "support to consolidate This emerging area of ​​Murcia agriculture, which is an engine of employment, development and wealth for the whole municipality. "
After several meetings with the irrigators, José Ballesta was the head of the Murcian farmers' delegation in Madrid last February, which asked Acuamed to increase the yield of the Valdelentisco desalination plant by 22hm3, given the water deficit of this area covering 10,000 hectares In the municipality of Murcia.
Following this meeting, on March 9, the first constituent Board of the Irrigation Community was held.
The constitution in Community of Regantes is a key step for this agrarian group when establishing itself as a valid interlocutor in the defense of the interests of the Region and its right to water.
Therefore, from the City Council have been promoted different meetings with the competent state agencies to streamline and coordinate this process.
Thus, on 23 March, José Ballesta met in Madrid with the Secretary of State for the Environment, María García Rodríguez, a meeting in which the first mayor again relayed the need "a fair treatment of the claims of this land" .
Last week, on May 4, another meeting took place in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment, between the mayor of Murcia, the director general of Water, Liana Ardiles, and the president of the CHS, In which the irrigators' claims were again addressed.
"They conveyed to me their commitment to accelerate and facilitate as much of the administrative process as possible for the constitution of this Community of Irrigators and to seek the necessary solutions," José Ballesta explained to irrigators.
The final objective is to consolidate a stable supply of desalinated water for its comuneros, starting with the expansion of the desalination plant of Valdelentisco, from the current 48hm3 up to 70hm3 that has capacity, a plant that supplies the irrigators of ten districts of the Campo murciano: Los Martinez del Puerto, Corvera, Sucina, Balsicas, Avileses, Gea and Truyols, Baños y Mendigo, Lobosillo, Barqueros and Cañada Hermosa.
In total, the guarantee of an additional 22 hm3 of water is a key supply for the use of the Murcia field, since the work per cubic hectometres used in irrigation can guarantee between 300 and 500 jobs in the case of greenhouses, reaching up to The 750 in the case of flowers, not counting the jobs generated by its commercialization.
"From the Town Hall we have worked together with the irrigators of the Murcia field and we continue to coordinate the different actions between the Ministry and the Ministry, to guarantee their right to water and to promote the development of this area whose productivity in the use of water resources is Maximum, particularly in the fruit and vegetable sector, both in terms of added value and employment, "said the mayor.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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