San Javier shows its support to the demands of the irrigators for the lack of water

Members of the municipal corporation, municipal workers and neighbors have participated this morning of the five-minute strike that has held at the door of the City Council in support of irrigators of Murcia, Almeria and Alicante that at the same time were manifested in Madrid in demands for solutions to the lack of water resources.

While the mayor of San Javier José Miguel Luengo and the Agriculture Councilman Sergio Martinez moved to Madrid to accompany the farmers of the municipality in the demonstration, in San Javier, the spokesman of the government team, Carlos Albaladejo read the Levantine Manifesto for Water, identical to the one defended in Madrid.

In the manifesto, prepared by the conveners, a appeal to the whole country on "the situation of extreme gravity that the Levantine orchard lives ", and warns of danger of desertification, since the drought affects more than forty four million trees, as well as the "disappearance of a productive model on which 23 percent of the economy depends. our regions. "

The manifesto requests as solutions the durability of the Tajo-Segura Aqueduct, and aims at improvements in the desalination plants, use of reclaimed water, the transfer of rights and modernization of irrigation, as well as the