The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, assured this Sunday that "if we do not have a rainy spring, if it did not rain between now and summer, we would have serious supply problems in provincial capitals and important municipalities, with the impact on population, but also economic in agriculture, industry and tourism.
In an interview with the newspaper Sur, collected by Europa Press, Moreno invites us to "assume that the drought has become a structural problem" and for that reason he defends the work of the Andalusian Government in that sense because "unfortunately, in Andalusia it is lack of water", which is why he defends that "we have activated more than a thousand actions in terms of water that will involve an investment of more than 4,000 million euros by 2027".
"That is why I appeal to the need for a great Pact for Water, and to create an alliance between administrations to launch these actions as soon as possible," the president of the Andalusian Government continues explaining in the interview, who emphasizes that "it is a problem that does not only affect Andalusia", to then point out that "there are two communities that are having a bad time, which are Catalonia and Andalusia".
He laments that "the political climate of a lot of noise and confrontation is not helpful," as well as acknowledging that "I see it as very difficult for one community to cooperate with another in matters of water," for which he argues that "it is not the priority that Sánchez's Government at this moment and because I do not see an independentist showing solidarity in matters of water".
When asked about the most urgent actions, the Andalusian president warns with "if necessary" about the possibility of "having tankers to supply the coast of the Costa del Sol from the port of Malaga", to which he adds other tools such as desalination plants and portable wastewater treatment plants, in addition to recovering strategic surveys "to provide short-term service to areas as affected as Axarquía."
After specifying the work being done "to make the Vélez Málaga desalination plant a reality as soon as possible", along with similar actions in Málaga and Marbella, he demands that the Government "also understand the urgent need to launch facilities of this type, which take between three and five years."
Among the references that the Andalusian president makes to his recent stay at the United Nations Climate Summit, COP28, held in Dubai (United Arab Emirates), the Andalusian president points out that "one of the things we have done in Dubai is to go to "learn from countries that are drier than Andalusia and where solutions have been implemented to solve the lack of structural water with large infrastructures that have meant the definitive end of this problem for the population and to supply their water needs."
