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Saturday 6, 13 and 20 August, residents of Cartagena localities of Mar Menor will demonstrate in defense of the salt lake, and the mayor, Jose Lopez, has already announced he will be with them, supporting them in all their demonstrations.

The timing of the same, was presented Wednesday at the Palace Hall, where Lopez was accompanied by the president of the Federation of Neighborhood Associations, Cristina Roca, and member of the federation and spokesman for the Neighborhood Associations of Arco South, Angel Wallet.

The three concentrations are made on Saturday to facilitate the participation of residents, all at the same time, 11 am, and will take place the day 6, Grandchildren, opposite the Club de Regatas;

the Saturday 13, in Punta Brava, in the main square of the Assumption;

and August 20 in Playa Honda, in front of the beach bar El Refugio.

In addition, this initiative must be added the talks by experts on the state of the salt lake, the first was on Tuesday at the Association of Residents of La Manga, and are scheduled two more, one on July 30, the 10.30 pm in the Neighborhood Association of Los Urrutias;

and August 4 at 20.30 pm in Paradise Beach.

For the mayor, who on Tuesday attended, along with the other mayors of municipalities in the Mar Menor, at a meeting convened by the President of the Autonomous Community and the Minister of Agriculture, Water and Environment, which said Pedro Antonio Sanchez reference the poor state of the salt lake, that this will not happen again, is fine, but you have already passed the facts and adopt a series of measures to return to the life he has always had the Mar Menor.

Among them, Jose Lopez stressed the need to return to the previous model at the start of the stage of massive urban construction and intensive agriculture, lack of control, it has been causing degradation of the Mar Menor, a problem that has long he warned the Autonomous Community, but until this year have made the Swedes, and now run.

Another pending issue of the Community, according to Lopez, is enforceable in Congress and defend the Hydrological Plan, we need water for our fields, and the same price as the rest of the Spaniards, the state should regulate that water is available to all and the regional government has to fight for it.

BALSAS TO PREVENT FLOODING

The mayor has released some of the actions to be carried out immediately in the Mar Menor, as measures to tackle the effects of possible torrential rain that could fall in September, as has happened in other years , in the localities of Mar de Cristal and Los Nietos, where they will make two major channels rainwater into rafts paths where you can pick up and use of water by farmers.

According to Jose Lopez, they are palliative measures, but not the total and permanent solution to the problem, so we have to move forward with more rafts which allow reuse of water.

In addition, added the mayor, will be installed green filters, are to be reused waters Pickle Rambla de Miranda and is already successfully applied in some farm a system to purify the brine, it must assume also farmers, will have to talk to them, tell them that sustainable agriculture is necessary and return to friendly crops to the environment.

MEDITERRANEAN CORRIDOR

Finally, and questions from reporters, the mayor has talked about what could be the final route of the Mediterranean corridor, where Cartagena is out, which, according to Jose Lopez, is insulting and teasing to Cartagena .

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena