The Popular Party has presented a motion to the plenary session of the Cabildo so that the Insular Water Council of Tenerife (CIATF) Include the proposal for the insular water ring “in the new proposal document for the Tenerife Hydrological Plan project.” For the island councilor Valentin González Évora, “Hydrological planning is essential when we think about the model of sustainable, economic and environmental growth of our Island.”
With this system, the PP trusts that «the availability of water in both the primary and tertiary sectors is guaranteed in quantity, regularity, quality and adequate price in all the regions of Tenerife».
“The island is configured as a hydrographic demarcation in itself, whose management is entrusted to the Insular Water Council,” recalls the PP, which proposes to require this body to update the General Survey on Demarcation, which implies the necessary expansion and renewal of the drinking water distribution capacity ”.
Valentín González Évora hopes that the Tenerife Hydrological Plan includes a conduit to share surplus water between regions
González Évora anticipates that «so that both the primary and tertiary sectors can benefit, it is necessary for hydrological planning to take into account the expansion and renovation of transport networks, in addition to increasing storage capacity, and improving the distribution and distribution of this important resource ”.
In the opinion of the popular councilor, “it is necessary that the new island hydrological planning takes into account the expansion and renovation of the water transport and storage networks. In such a way that Tenerife is provided with new transport networks for its commercialization.n, at the same time that it would be possible to increase the storage capacity, the length of the renewed network, and increase the distribution and distribution of the resource, as well as the capacity of cubic meters for each day of distribution ”.
Canary Coalition of Tenerife It has also demanded this Wednesday an urgent action from the Island Council to solve the water supply problems that the Northwest municipalities have been suffering. For the nationalists, «we are facing a problem of the first order that affects the daily lives of thousands of people and we do not see that the PSOE is acting with the immediacy and importance who has this matter.
Canary Coalition understands that there is “an obvious neglect” of the island government in this basic matter
For CC, «there is an evident neglect on the part of the Council of Tenerifee, who is the one who has to solve this problem jointly with the city councils. And he points out a possible partisan interest: «Pedro Martin it is not there nor is it expected. It seems that the problems that affect municipalities that are not governed by the PSOE are not a priority for him, since his party does not govern in La Guancha, Icod, Garachico, Los Silos or Buenavista, which are a large part of the affected municipalities. We cannot allow sectarianism in an issue as important as this.
For CC de Tenerife, «the situation is very serious, to the point that the Buenavista City Council this Tuesday prohibited the use of water to drink and prepare food in the municipalities due to the problems it suffers the Brackish Water Desalination Station (EDAS) of Altos de Icod».
The nationalist formation remembers that the seven municipalities of the Northwest have denounced their problems for the supply of water due to the excess of fluorine, specific breakdowns and breaches of the facilities, which has caused that Public Healtha Do not recommend consumption in various areas of these towns or, directly, throughout the municipality, as is currently the case in La Guancha.
As the first measure to be taken, CC requests that the action planned since the last mandate be carried out “immediately” in the Cabildo to place 93 meters and flow meters in the municipal warehouses of 12 municipalities in Tenerife. In his opinion, «since the arrival of the PSOE to the island presidency, the Tenerife Council has been paralyzed, it is no longer the engine it was before and it has no capacity to react to the problems that affect the island’s citizens. We demand an immediate solution so that the entire population of this area can have quality water and develop their lives normally.
The Councilor for Sustainable Development and the Fight against Climate Change of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Javier Rodríguez Medina (PSOE), already told EL DÍA this week that the problem of water shortage in the seven municipalities in the northwest of Tenerife would not be solved with access to more resources from other regions, but by acting in the face of the very serious problem of losses of drinking water in the networks municipalities of these localities. Medina points out that in the water balances carried out by CIATF, no surpluses are detected in other areas and asks the Northwest leaders to “look inwardly” and take measures to end enormous losses of water that oscillate «between 32% of Garachico and 65% of El Tanque and San Juan de la Rambla».
In his opinion, “the problem is in the pipes that make the water escape through their fingers. The solution is not to put more water in systems that lose most of it», He warns. Leaks waste 65% of the water in El Tanque and San Juan de la Rambla, 56% in La Guancha, 55% in Los Silos, 38% in Buenavista and 32% in Garachico. Some yields in the supply networks that, in Rodríguez’s opinion, “are really poor, since we are talking about the fact that there are municipalities that lose two out of every three liters of water.”
Rodríguez says that “despite being a municipal competition, from The Cabildo has been awarded a contract of 2.1 million euros to place meters and flow meters in all the incoming and outgoing warehouses of these towns. They are counters that will allow us to know where the losses are occurring to notify the municipalities so that they take the appropriate measures.
Restrictions in seven municipalities
At present, problems with the quality and supply of water make it necessary to maintain restrictions on the consumption of the public network in areas of the seven municipalities in the Northwest of Tenerife. The prohibition of using tap water for drinking and cooking is total in La Guancha; the Icodense centers of La Florida, Cueva del Viento, Lomo Las Lajas, La Patita and Los Piquetes; San José de los Llanos, in El Tanque; the medianías of Buenavista del Norte, and most of La Caleta de Interián, in Los Silos. In addition, there are problems with the supply in the upper area of Garachico and restrictions for children under 8 years of age in Erjos and Ruigómez, in El Tanque; the old town, San Felipe, Campino and San Marcos, in Icod, and in most of San Juan de la Rambla.
