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The Government of the

Region of Murcia

has initiated the procedures to request the State to transfer powers over internal basins, those channels, boulevards and runoffs, whose waters discharge into the Mar Menor, an ecosystem that is in a serious environmental crisis .

This was advanced this Thursday at a press conference after the meeting of the Governing Council, the spokeswoman for the regional Executive,

Valle Miguélez

, who explained that the objective of this measure is "to make effective what is contemplated in the Statute of Autonomy of the Region ", specifically, in article 10.8

Sources from the Ministry of Water have explained that the objective is "to have the competences of the basin body in the face of its inaction to prevent the spills that are taking place through the different boulevards and channels, mainly from Albujón, to the Mar Menor, also controlling irrigation illegal and thus provide the data ".

To start this process "a formal request will be made to the Ministry of Territorial Policy and the Ministry for Ecological Transition."

The transfer in the matter of intra-community basins will allow Murcia to assume the competences that correspond to the basin organizations. Specifically, the Community's hydraulic administration would be responsible for drawing up, monitoring and reviewing the intra-community basin plan; the administrative functions related to the conservation and the police of the waters and their channels; and the felling and demarcation of the channels.

In addition to the determination of the exploitation regime of the reservoirs established in the rivers of that internal basin;

the temporary limitation of the use of the public hydraulic domain to guarantee its rational exploitation;

the declaration of overexploitation of underground aquifers;

the realization of public offers for the acquisition of rights of use in the legally authorized water banks;

and the protection of groundwater against saline intrusions of continental or maritime origin.

As well as the intervention in the wastewater treatment facilities;

promoting the protection of wetlands;

and the management and collection, where appropriate, of all levies (taxes, fines, debts) related to the public hydraulic domain.

"The situation is critical"

The Minister of Water, Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Environment,

Antonio Luengo

, has warned that the situation is "critical" and has asked that measures be adopted in this regard, including that the Segura Hydrographic Confederation (CHS) cease any type of illegal irrigation, and stop the discharges to the Albujón Rambla.

"We are in a very delicate moment, calm days are foreseen with that increase in temperatures registered this summer and an episode like the one that has been experienced in recent weeks could be unleashed," said Luengo, who has made it clear that the Murcian Executive " It cannot wait and has designed the strategy, defined actions, "because, he said," there is no time "to implement the new strategy announced this Wednesday by Minister Teresa Ribera.

In fact, it has announced that this Friday the extraordinary Governing Council "will approve the decree law announced by the Murcian president, Fernando López Miras, which aims to prohibit any type of entry with nutrients to the Mar Menor through the different boulevards", mainly in the Albujón.

This legal framework intends to guarantee this point and expedite "the reduction of time limits in administrative procedures in order to increase the effectiveness of the norm and achieve greater agility, especially in sanctioning procedures."

The counselor is committed to carrying out actions "in the short term, which are defined and agreed with the entire scientific community and must be carried out imminently".

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