The spokesman for the regional presidency of IU, José Maria Ortega, said that "water demagoguery" of the PP, together with real estate speculation and drought due to the lack of control over the demand for water is "one of the major threat to irrigated Murcia. "
Ortega noted that the Agriculture Minister, Antonio Cerdá, "has lavished on his speeches the great modern irrigation in the region", what he saw as "a maneuver to divert attention from addressing the problems arising from the policy followed by the PP "for water.
Orchard said the Murcia Region is experiencing the consequences of the development model of regional government with the construction of second homes in places that get water from the Tajo-Segura.
In this regard, he cited the case of Tender where "the passivity of the PP, again the garden is being destroyed for second homes largely become illegal."
"The destruction of the territorial heritage and socio-economic sector linked to the exploitation of irrigation Murcia is a far greater danger than the drought," he said.
Source: IU Murcia