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According to the president of the Association of Irrigation Communities of the Duero Basin (Ferduero), Ángel González Quintanilla, the first people affected by the extraordinary releases in Santa Teresa, Águeda and Irueña were the farmers of Salamanca. “Now it is the turn of the communities of León to suffer the consequences of the release of water that has been taking place since September 9th in the Riaño and Porma reservoirs, in the Esla-Valderaduey system”, added González Quintanilla.
For Ferduero, this is a “spoliation” that is taking place “unilaterally and without any type of dialogue, accusing the Spanish Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge of continually turning its back on irrigation and the rural world”. However, the Government deputy delegate in León, Faustino Sánchez, stressed that the release of water to Portugal “is mandatory” under the agreement signed between the two countries.
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“The agreement provides for the sending to Portugal of around 870 cubic hectometers of water stored in Spanish reservoirs in the Douro basin, of which around 650 come from these two large reservoirs. Thus, in the next two weeks, before the end of the current hydrological year on September 30, Spain must have complied with that agreement and to do so it will have to give the minimum amount of dammed water to the Portuguese Douro basin”, reported the Portuguese portal JN.
By: Leonardo Gottems | agrolink
