The Association of Professional Farmers of Lanzarote - APROLAN denounces the "very serious situation" that is being experienced in Lanzarote with the problem of lack of water that affects "hundreds of hectares of crops" of food located in the municipalities of Teguise, San Bartolomé and Tinajo.
"Constant interruptions of the service, lack of specificity of when it will be restored, days without supply and a water quality not suitable for crops create an alarming situation that endangers not only the supply of agricultural food in the local market, but the work of hundreds of workers and the production of the largest professional farmers on the island," he reports.
"As of today, the farms are without water, the heat impacts seriously and directly, and in this situation we are informed that at least until the middle of next week the service will remain interrupted, something that puts 500,000 kg of harvest at risk of loss," the association adds.
APROLAN is aware that this problem "affects the population at all levels, but cannot fail to denounce the lack of coordination between those responsible, both from the public administrations involved and from the supplying company," he points out. "There is a real infrastructure problem, which generates indescribable losses of resources and money, and generates an extremely risky environmental impact for the island and its condition as a biosphere reserve," he makes clear.
"This situation cannot continue to be faced with the same tone of irresponsibility on all sides, which only point to each other as those responsible, without providing a definitive solution to this structural and vital problem for the island," they reveal from the association.
"With consequences ranging from a millionaire loss of its production, to the potential shortage of the basic food market"
"It goes without saying that we are talking about a sector, the agricultural sector, which literally depends on the water resource for its subsistence, and that in a situation like the one being experienced, it puts at risk a chain of consequences ranging from a millionaire loss of its production, to the potential shortage of the basic food market," they confirm.
"We demand that all necessary measures be taken to execute once and for all an immediate solution to this serious problem, ceasing to divert responsibilities from one side to the other, and definitively work on the solution with the current resources," they ask from Aprolan.
"Additionally, we will request the corresponding compensations, since in the absence of assistance from the institutions, we must resort to extraordinarily expensive and harmful solutions," he anticipates.
"We offer from our position all the collaboration that is in our hands to solve this situation, and we will propose in the coming days meetings with the new responsible authorities so that they know firsthand the reality of our sector and definitively settle the existing problem with a resource as essential as water," he concludes.