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Six municipalities in the region, led by Cartagena, said today its support to farmers in the Campo de Cartagena calling for an urgent solution to the problem of salmueraductos, an unfinished work that prevents the proper disposal of waste brackish water desalinated Sea Mediterranean and affecting the ecosystem of the Mar Menor, silted by providing nutrients

The problem, as has been highlighted by farmers, is also due to insufficient water received by the diversion for agriculture, which has had to supply in times of shortage with desalinated groundwater.

In response, the mayor of Cartagena, Jose Lopez, accepted yesterday the request of the Coordinator of Organizations of Farmers and Ranchers (COAG) and the Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives of Murcia (FECOAM) to hold a meeting to discuss the issue with the mayors of different municipalities of the region, as Antonio Leon de Torre Pacheco and Antonio Jesus Garcia de Fuente Alamo and groups involved as the Community of Irrigators of Campo de Cartagena in addition to the groups that have made the request, meeting which was also attended by the Councillor Agriculture, Obdulia Gomez.

The purpose of this meeting was to address and view the relevant solutions you need this so important to the region of the field of Cartagena and the regional community as a whole primary sector, as indicated by José López, indicating that six municipalities of the Region support the demands of farmers.

These municipalities sonCartagena, La Union, Fuente Alamo, Torre-Pacheco, San Javier and San Pedro del Pinatar.

As indicated by the president of COAG, Vicente Carrion, from the collective take more than ten years claiming the authorities of the Autonomous Community solutions that have not yet been given, such as the completion of the infrastructure of salmueraductos to the Mediterranean Sea that it is where they intend to finalize the works;

conduits which built the Hydrographic Confederation itself and not ended as indicated.

The solutions that have been raised in this meeting have been on the one hand the request for a contribution of sufficient water transfer from the headwaters of the Tagus to continue with crops that are being developed right now in the field of Cartagena, for further they are expecting 30 hectometres from the basin, and on the other hand that start immediately the works for driving the brine and keep those nitrates carrying desalinated water have a presence in the Mar Menor.

The start of construction has to start immediately.

The works are very simple and quick to do, because we are talking about 15 or 17 kilometers offshore pipeline that would lead to San Pedro del Pinatar in Mar Mayordonde is no problem for Poseidonia, said Carrion.

COAG president has described this lack of solutions as a complete and utter neglect by the different administrations.

Now all eyes are faults and in a sector that we are most interested in these insistence that we are doing to the administration to solve a problem, Vicente Carrion said, adding that they are willing to address the economic costs involving the works.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena