The mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, said about the possible transfer of water from the Ebro River to Barcelona, which means that this transfer is justified by the emergency situation that exists in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, but added that the same situation emergency exists in the field of the region in which there is no water for irrigation, crops are abandoned, immigrant unemployment grows and destroys a sector that exports and generate foreign exchange to Spain.
Barreiro pointed out that many municipalities have made great efforts and financial investments to clean up its waters and to improve their supply networks so there is no loss of any kind, while in other places not.
The mayor gave as example the city of Cartagena, where the effectiveness of its supply network is around 87%.
Finally, the mayor has said that the minister should be to assess whether the situation in the Region of Murcia is an emergency, although it has called for a policy then that is a national.
SPANISH ON ZINC
In addition, the mayor has endorsed the statements made yesterday by the Government team spokesman, Joaquin Segado, about the administrative situation in which there is the draft of the new factory zincs.
It will be recalled Segado clarified that the City currently has only one request for change of land use by the company.
Next Friday there will be a four-way meeting (Works of zincs, Ministry of Sustainable Development, the INFO and the City) in which they propose setting up a technical committee to analyze the state of the processes that lead to zincs out with management.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena