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At a meeting this afternoon with the Secretary of State for the Environment and Water General Manager, at the request of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth Taibilla Channel.
Besides House, attended the same the mayors of Alicante, Cartagena and Elche, Lorca Mayor and President of the MCT.
The water management developed by Zapatero's government obligation to transfer the cost of desalination to users.
The mayors say they "force us to assume costs of sectarian and partisan political decisions promoted by the socialist governments would be a new hit for the inhabitants of the Southeast".
The Secretary of State has been receptive and willing to study the proposal.
It will take place the price increase until the development of a comprehensive proposal.
The mayors of the municipalities with the highest population served by the Commonwealth Taibilla Channel today have requested the amendment of the agreement between this entity and Acuamed to reduce the volume of desalinated water and the price of it.
The call came this afternoon in a meeting with the Secretary of State for the Environment, Federico Ramos, and the Director General of Water, Liana Sandra Ardiles, at the request of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth Taibilla Channel.
At the same attended by the Mayor of Murcia, Miguel Ángel Cámara, the mayors of Alicante, Sonia Castedo-, Cartagena Pilar Barreiro-and-Mercedes Alonso-Elche, Lorca Mayor Francisco Jodar-, and the President of the MCT Adolfo Garcia.
Mayors have remembered that the previous Socialist government, led by Zapatero, the MCT forced to sign a purchase agreement to transfer desalinated water cost of desalination to users of Murcia and Alicante.
The deal, says House-was a disproportionate increase in prices and a discrimination against the more than 2 million Spanish living in the Southeast against the inhabitants of other regions.
"It's another example of the wrong policy desalination plant construction developed by the socialist government in its efforts to marginalize the Mediterranean regions and is an inheritance which seeks to transfer to households that chaotic and poor water policy, if not corrected, will punish Murcia and Alicante, "says House.
The mayors of the municipalities with the highest population in the MCT have integrated the Secretary of State expressed his opposition to the established agreements and have argued that the investments made by Acuamed with state contribution for the construction of the plants are assumed throughout the country, as has happened before in Catalonia and island communities.
They have insisted on the impossibility of bringing the network total water produced by desalination plants since their operating costs would be unworkable.
Likewise, the mayors Federico Ramos have highlighted the need for the MCT keep the legal-administrative Current operating, since throughout its history "has contributed in an efficient, effective and sustainable to ensure supply water to all municipalities in its area. "
Avoiding a new violation of the citizens of Southeast
In this sense, also reiterated that the TCM has never been funded from the general state budget, but by user-generated resources.
Thus, Alicante and Murcia were redeemed and paid all the infrastructure for drinking water supply without external resources.
"Forcing us to assume costs of sectarian and partisan political decisions promoted by the socialist governments would be an affront to the people of the South East, simply by living in one of the areas of increased economic activity and wealth of the territory," they conclude.
For his part, the Secretary of State for the Environment has been receptive and understood the approach of the mayors present at the meeting, who has expressed its readiness to consider the proposal and take no decision until the development of a comprehensive proposal .
Thus, the possible increase of cost caused by desalination not take effect.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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