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The general director of Water, Ministry of Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs (MARM), Marta Moreno, presented today at the headquarters of the Hydrographic Confederation of Segura (CHS), the Manual for the Restoration of the Banks in the Basin Segura River, which is intended as a guide for rehabilitation of the river areas of the basin.

The handbook, published by the CHS, it provides basic information on the vegetation of the basin and provides guidelines to follow for the development and implementation of riverbank revegetation projects, adapting to the peculiarities of the Segura River Basin District, while proposing changes to the current model of river management in semi-arid areas.

This basin, despite its small size, is an area of high biodiversity due to the sharp contrasts in climate, geology, terrain and land use in its territory.

However, water scarcity and growing demand have brought it one of the most regulated river in Spain, where resource management has strong ecological, economic and political, which seriously hampers the conservation and restoration of river systems.

In that sense, the environmental values of river corridors Segura Basin are involved in a context of strong socio-economic dynamism that in some cases, lead to a high pressure applications in the channels,

made a negative impact on the current state of conservation of our

river landscapes.

This manual is part of the context of the Water Framework Directive, which aims to achieve good ecological status of European rivers in 2015 and in the National Rivers Restoration MARM.

The restoration of riparian zones as a key element of both the structure and functioning of aquatic ecosystems, is at present one of the main objectives of river management in developed countries.

This is due to growing concerns about the advanced and widespread degradation of rivers and shorelines, as well as knowledge of the goods and services they can offer (improving the quality and quantity, proper protection against floods and erosion , conservation of biodiversity, natural areas and recreation expansion.)

Source: MARM