2023-11-29 01:55:04
Environmental groups have defended that the Tajo Hydrological Plan does not pose “any risk” to the water supply in the Community of Madrid and have considered that the appeal announced against it by the president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, “has no legal or technical basis.” “.
They urge the regional government “to meet its obligations regarding purification and maintenance of the good condition of the water bodies”
This has been stated since ORthe Jarama El Soto Ecological Association, Ecologists in Action of the Community of Madrid, GRAMA, Free Nature y Live Jarama through a statement, in which they have urged the regional government “to meet its obligations regarding purification and maintenance of the good condition of the water bodies” in the region.
Ayuso’s statements
From these groups they have warned that Ayuso’s statements, who pointed out that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, was trying to “boycott” the Community through this Plan, are “completely far from reality” and can cause “social alarm.” completely unjustified.”
“It does not put obstacles on transfers for supply” but rather “establishes a series of procedures by which the holders of a transfer have to proceed before the competent body for the management of the Public Hydraulic Domain”
Specifically, they have defended that the Plan “does not put water at risk” but rather “guarantees supply as established by legislation”. “The urban demand of the towns supplied by the Canal de Isabel II is located at 510.3 hm3/year, while the dams managed by the Canal de Isabel II have an impoundment volume of 943.6 hm3/year. That is to say , the supply system of the Community of Madrid is not compromised”, they stressed below.
Furthermore, they have emphasized that this “does not put obstacles to transfers for supply” but rather “establishes a series of procedures by which the holders of a transfer have to proceed before the competent body for the management of the Public Hydraulic Domain” .
Establishes that the right holder You must request a monthly authorization. As they have stated, “this administrative procedure is common to all holders of these rights and not only applicable to the Canal de Isabel II”. In addition, they have stressed that “it means a logical and normal procedure that a holder of a use right has to request authorization from the body designated by law for the management of the Public Hydraulic Domain”.
Watershed planning
Likewise, they have assured that “it does not represent any obstacle to planning”, since “the Community of Madrid does not have any power regarding the planning of the hydrographic basins of its territory” as it is “an attribution that corresponds to the State according to the water law”.
The environmental groups are also struck by the fact that the president speaks of the Plan as “an obstacle to the purification requirements”, given that “the treatment plants of the Canal de Isabel II are mainly responsible for the pollution of Madrid’s rivers and of non-compliance with the environmental objectives of the Water Framework Directive”.
They regret that the regional government “is using the resources of the people of Madrid in meaningless and baseless judicial appeals.”
For all these reasons, the groups ARBA, the Jarama El Soto Ecologist Association, Ecologists in Action of the Community of Madrid, GRAMA, Liberum Natura and Jarama Vivo regret that the regional government “is using the resources of the people of Madrid in judicial appeals without meaningless and without foundation.”
They point out that “water problems in the Community are in achieving the objectives of the good condition of the bodies of water, whose main responsible for their pollution is the insufficient purification from the Canal de Isabel II purification stations“.
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