Almería, (EFE) and “very serious”.
“Faced with this drought, of course we can do nothing to make it rain. Water cannot be manufactured yet. There are two attitudes, the attitude of doing absolutely nothing, which is what the Government of Spain is doing, and it is what the PSOE repeatedly asks us to do, or the attitude of being not proactive, but hyperactive,” he said in statements to the media in Almería.
He has defended that the Junta de Andalucía takes measures every week to the Governing Council, with works and infrastructures that “come to alleviate this situation” because “water can be desalinated, water can be purified, water can be transferred, the water can be stored, its use can be optimized”.
“For this reason, the Junta de Andalucía already has two drought decrees, the vast majority of which have already been reversed and executed to alleviate the consequences of the drought. That is why the Junta de Andalucía has created a committee of experts that scientifically analyzes the situation in our Autonomous Community to make the best decisions ”, he explained.
Transfer Red-Odiel
He also recalled the SOS Plan, which provides for an investment of more than 4,000 million euros in the coming years, and that the third decree against drought is being prepared, because “in the face of drought, we must be proactive.”
On the other hand, he has referred to the transfer of Tinto, Odiel and Piedras to the surroundings of Doñana, a commitment made by President Pedro Sánchez with “all Huelva residents” in 2018. Five years later, he asserts, “what usually happens with promises” has happened. of Pedro Sánchez, that the infrastructure has not been made ”.
“What Mr. Pedro Sánchez has to do is keep his word, is to build the infrastructure as soon as possible,” he reiterated.
High Speed Connection
On the other hand, he referred to the proposal promoted by the European People’s Party in the Transport and Tourism Committee of the European Parliament to link Seville and Almería with a high-speed railway, thanks to the Utrera-Granada-Almería section, now included in the Basic Network of 2030 within the Trans-European Transport Network.
“The structuring of the territory, uniting those provinces that are geographically distant, must be an inalienable objective of any government. The distance between Almería and Seville (…) we are not going to save it in any way, but it is true that the Junta de Andalucía is doing everything on its part so that the emotional distance, the sentimental distance and what is most important, the distance in time each time it is reduced ”, he said.
He gave as an example the contribution made by the Ministry of Public Works to the Seville-Almería air connection, and added that any initiative in this line can only be “applauded”. EFE