The

Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (Miteco)

has opened files to the companies that manage reservoirs in the Duero, Tajo and Miño-Sil river basins for the hydroelectric use they have made in those swamps.

The Secretary of State for the Environment,

Hugo Morán

, has announced the opening of files through the hydrographic confederations after a meeting with mayors of municipalities affected by the emptying of the

Ricobayo

reservoir

(Zamora),

where one of the files has been initiated for "malpractice" in management.

Morán has detailed in statements collected by Efe that in these three hydrographic demarcations there are reservoirs in which there have been levels of exploitation "above what would be recommended at this time."

In the case of Ricobayo, where

the level has gone from 95 to 11% of its capacity

in four months and the discharges have been especially marked in June and July, coinciding with the maximum prices of electricity, Morán has indicated not only should assess whether or not the limits of the concession have been exceeded.

Beyond this, in concessions with decades of antiquity, as is the case of that reservoir that dates from the 1930s of the last century, it is necessary to see "if what common sense recommends when dealing with the management of a public resource as sensitive as water ".

The Secretary of State for the Environment has also advanced that there are also cases in which a file has been opened, not for hydroelectric exploitation, but for other uses and has recalled that every year "situations of inadequate responses to the pressure of scarcity. "

Morán's announcement came after the third vice president of the Government and head of Miteco, Teresa Ribera, contacted Iberdrola about the drastic reduction of water in the Ricobayo (Zamora) and

Valdecañas (Cáceres)

reservoirs

and confessed that she was "shocked by what she was seeing."

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