During his visit to the Aspe Irrigation Community, Pérez Llorca highlighted the Generalitat's commitment to irrigators, ensuring that each fiscal year will include a budget allocation for water infrastructure. The goal is to improve water supply to the most needy areas of the Valencian Community, especially the Vinalopó region.
The works for section 2 of the Júcar-Vinalopó post-transfer, awarded two years ago to the UTE Acciona and Grupo Bertolín for nearly 20 million euros, aim to channel water to the irrigation communities on the left bank of the Vinalopó. This infrastructure will benefit nearly 70,000 hectares of crops in the Alto, Medio, and Bajo Vinalopó regions, as well as part of Albatera in the Vega Baja.
“"A historic opportunity to have European funds to apply them to improve infrastructure and generate more resources has been wasted. The Generalitat has complied, but when it comes down to it, when it comes to taking that money and investing it, the Government of Spain has decided not to do so."
The president lamented the loss of European funds for water projects, criticizing the Spanish Government's decision not to execute the Zero Discharge project in the bay of Alicante, despite the Generalitat having completed the project's drafting. He also advocated for the need for a major national water agreement and criticized the denial of water transfers to citizens while they are paid for in other countries.
For his part, the mayor of Aspe, Antonio Puerto, thanked the president for his sensitivity to the needs of the agricultural sector in Aspe. Puerto highlighted three key demands: the review of the objective estimation system modules to avoid discrimination against crops like grapes, the implementation of the Zero Discharge project, and the urgent repair of the San Diego reservoir to utilize water from the Júcar that currently cannot be used.
