The mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, today asked the Government and the Generalitat to explain how they will guarantee that drinking water reaches the taps of the citizens of the Catalan capital during the drought.
This was indicated by Collboni on the eve of the Vice President of the Government and Minister for the Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, meeting tomorrow in Barcelona, separately, with the Minister of Climate Action, David Mascort, and with the mayor of the Catalan capital. , to address solutions that help alleviate the water emergency situation that Catalonia has suffered since last Friday.
In fact, the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, has assured in an interview with EFE that he expects the "maximum collaboration" of Ribera to reverse the effects of the drought, with support in the financing of desalination plants or with beaded water ships. managed by the State or from desalination plants in other communities.
Collboni has stated, in statements to journalists, that he has not been officially notified that it has been agreed to send ships with drinking water from Valencia to Catalonia and that he hopes that tomorrow Ribera will explain to him "first-hand" the ideas they have on the matter.
The mayor of Barcelona has insisted that what worries him is that, in this "exceptional" situation due to the drought, when Barcelona residents turn on the tap they will get drinking water: "I am convinced that it is guaranteed, but it is the Generalitat and the Government those who have to tell us how they are going to guarantee it.
Collboni has stressed that the City Council is "very attentive" to the measures that the competent administrations, the Generalitat and the Government, articulate to combat the effects of the drought, especially those related to guaranteeing tap water for human consumption.
"I hope that tomorrow they will explain to us how they will guarantee tap water to the residents, which is guaranteed, but they have to explain to us how," said Collboni, who has made it clear that the City Council has "full confidence", collaborates and follows the indications from the competent administrations regarding drought.
In any case, he insisted that Barcelonans already have "very low" water consumption levels, which is why he sees it as "difficult" to ask them to reduce the use of drinking water "even more." "But we have to do it at all levels to try to overcome this stage, which we hope passes as quickly as possible," she stressed.
Collboni has made these statements after signing the decree that allows for the acceleration of a planned investment of 14 million euros in the next four years to extract groundwater (non-potable) from the Plaza de les Glories and take it to the Joan Miró area, which It would allow irrigation to be guaranteed indoors and in parks and gardens in the Eixample and cleaning by flushing.
