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"The nefarious policies of all national governments over water, for pure political interests, have plunged the Region of Murcia and its farmers into a situation of continuous survival, neglect and hardship, when in Spain the water is left over but poorly distributed. And now, they pretend to pay a "flat rate" whether or not water from the transfer. "
The PP submitted to the September plenary session a motion to ensure that water tariffs were not applied until there were no transfers.
I stated that this motion would be unnecessary if the intention of the Government of the nation were not to vary the form of payment of the tariffs.
But from the debate, it was deduced that the PP motion did not reflect the "maneuver" that hides the last drought decree.
When is this drought decree going to happen with the tariffs?
Because until now, but the water came to the farmer, the tariffs did not pay.
El in Royal Decree-Law 10/2017 of June 9, which adopts urgent measures to alleviate the effects caused by drought in certain river basins and modifies the consolidated text of the Water Law, approved by Royal Legislative Decree 1 / 2001 of 20 July.
What is not said is that it camouflages a new system of calculation clearly collecting that punishes the economies of the farmers of the southeast Spanish.
Changing the interpretative criterion given up to now since the entry into force of law 52/1980 of that year that regulated the economic regime of aqueduct exploitation.
This is why the Central Union of Irrigators of the Tajo-Segura Aqueduct has resorted to the litigation-administrative route the tariff reform of the central government for the use of this transfer that will require them to pay 12 million euros receive or not water for that channel .
That is, communities of irrigators will pay fixed amounts of money, whether or not water is transferred.
A "flat rate" model similar to that of other types of supplies, such as electricity, telephony, etc ... is taken, but with the "slight exception", that in this case the possibility of consuming is NOT always guaranteed.
Farmers want water and pay, in that order.
What is unsustainable, not to say an armed robbery, is to establish a tariff for 421 cubic hectometres without a single cubic meter being transferred to their lands.
To the extreme drought and its effects and having to assume desalinated water with exorbitant costs to this day, with respect to the other irrigators of the country.
Now farmers will have to pay for something they will not receive if this Royal Decree-Law 10/2017 of June 9 does not stop in court.
In addition, this drought decree, which sought to exempt the partial payment of water consumed this year, is suspended, since the Segura Hydrographic Confederation does not apply it when interpreting that it is subject to the arrival of flows that add up to half or less than the normal total allocations of farmers.
It is clear that this last decree of drought, has been used by the Government of the nation as a tool of makeup to change the criterion of application of the rates of transferred water.
The motion of the PP did not attend to the real problem that looms in relation to the tariffs that farmers pay for the Tajo-Seguro transfer.
The Region of Murcia does not exist for the national politicians, the proof is its policy on the water and the negligence of all the governments in search of a definitive solution to this great problem.
The interests of the parties and the votes have always prevailed and nothing seems to suggest that this will change.
Source: Juan Carlos Carrillo / Foto archivo Totana.com
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