The operating group cultivating water was the one that organized in the Extremadura city of Plasencia, The I Water Forum, under the slogan: new scenarios of equitable water management from the agroecological perspective in the face of scarcity and climatic crisis.
The objective was to bring together the different actors of the regions of northern Extremadura to discuss the Equitable Water Redistribution With social criteria. Social organization experiences were made known about the use of agua in other territories and the process initiated by the operating group cultivating Agua and experimental works developed so far.
I Water Forum of Extremadura
The Secretary General of Sustainable Development, Coordination and Water Planning, Víctor del Moral, Ha Participated in the inauguration of the I Water Forum where he highlighted the investment of the Board of more than 137 million euros in works of supply, purification or sanitation to make more efficient use of this resource.
During his speech at this forum, organized by Cicytex and the operating group ‘cultivating Agua’ and that it has been held at the Center for Organic Agriculture and Mountain of Plasencia, Del Moral has remembered the attendees that “in these almost two years of government, the Board has invested in infrastructure of the urban cycle of the urban cycle of the agua a total of 42 million euros, with which they have ended 21 works of supply improvements and 12 wastewater sanitation worksof which 42 Extremaduran locations have been benefited ».
The Secretary General of Sustainable Development, Water Coordination and Planning also remembered current actions or that will begin in the immediate future, “at this time we have works by works worth 74 million euros to which another 21 million will be added in actions awarded or in bidding process, ”he said.
Del Moral has pointed to the forum attendees that the Government of the Board of Extremadura is giving an example of good use of the economic resources available to them, “we are constantly working on bring water to rural areas that need it most«.
The head of Water Coordination and Planning has criticized the central government for «the low percentage destined for the departure of water infrastructure in the recovery and resilience fund that came from Europe and because they are not allocating to this end other funds that are not being used for other policies ».
Finally, he has insisted on the need for a new national pact for the Agua “The last is 2001, after the approval of the National Hydrological Plan” to achieve an equitable distribution of this very scarce and precious good. «We need it because Today’s weather is what it is, because consumption and habits have varied And because new infrastructure is needed or improved those that are obsolete to continue attending the demands and prepare for the future, ”said the moral.