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90% of the population of this area depend directly or indirectly from the primary sector.
At present, the lack of water resources threatens the survival of more than 200,000 cattle and crops
The president of the Community of Irrigators 'Campo Alto', Juan Garcia Corbalan, today announced that the districts north of Lorca will be mobilized to demand solutions to the serious problems affecting them and are endangering "the survival of our peoples ".
This has been announced at a rally this morning at the door of the City of Lorca.
Specifically, on Sunday June 5th, at 19 am, it will be held a demonstration in the section of the road C-415 that crosses the village of La Paca.
The next day, at 12 hours, will be a concentration on the door of the headquarters that the Segura River Basin Authority has in Murcia.
To this end, the villagers put a minibus available to Lorca councilors who will leave the Plaza of Spain at 9:00 am, in order that representatives of citizens join this protest action.
Corbalan Juan Garcia explained that 90% of the population living in the Highlands of Lorca called directly or indirectly dependent on the primary sector.
At present, the lack of water resources threatens the survival of more than 200,000 cattle to which can barely supplies.
The same applies to rain-fed crops in good ecological part, of olives, grapes, almonds and aromatic plants, which can not be removed later for lack of water.
"It's terrible for a farmer having to uproot trees that has cared for 20 or 30 years and whose operation depends on the support of his family, because organisms that should regulate the use of water does not meet the needs of our small farms" Corbalan Garcia says for whom the situation is about to lead to a "financial ruin" for the inhabitants of the area.
For commoners Highland solution to the shortage of water is a matter of political will.
"You can redistribute resources from the aquifer Bullas or field of Caravaca, in order to prevent the inhabitants of this area of ​​Lorca are victims of a galloping impoverishment and its districts accuse further depopulation" explains Garcia Corbalán .
Another possible solution would be to complete the distribution of water from the desalination Eagles.
In this regard, the president of the villagers recalled that the Government of Spain subsidized with 6.1 million euros the construction of the distribution network of 23 hm3 water than traditional and consolidated lorquino irrigated field received from this infrastructure each year.
Both distance and altitude to overcome in order to bring water from the desalination plant to the districts high Lorca is far superior.
Therefore, irrigators' Campo Alto "require" equal "among all farmers in the municipality.
They also ask the City of Lorca plans to boost industrialization and restructuring of the primary sector in the districts high, so diversify economic activity and employment opportunities generated in this, the poorest of the village.
Source: Agencias
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