The Yaiza City Council invites its residents to visit the exhibition 'Lanzarote, the struggle for water', installed in the Plaza de la Alameda in the town of Yaiza, where you can see eight metal structures that support the texts and photographs of José María Barreto with which the author of the investigation, hand in hand with the Order of the Canarian Puppy, "offers a visual, didactic and documented tour of what has historically been the most valuable and scarce natural resource on the island".
"It is the treasure that we Lanzarote residents have best known how to appreciate," says the creator of this traveling exhibition in one of the panels, which from next February 23 to March 3 can also be enjoyed on Calle Limones in Playa Blanca.
The mayor of Yaiza publicly congratulates and thanks José María Barreto and all the members of the Order of the Canarian Puppy "for highlighting the customs and traditions of our land. The maximum use of water is part of the life of our towns, it symbolizes the struggle for survival, so the task of disseminating its culture is not only important, but especially necessary, so I also thank the support of the CEIP Yaiza and the management of the educational center that have scheduled guided tours for schoolchildren."
The Councilor for Education of Yaiza, Silvia Santana, points out that "the format of the exhibition and its contents are very didactic and striking, so from the first day we could appreciate the interest of adults and children in accessing the information closely."
The absence of water, emphasizes José María Barreto, "the absence of water has conditioned life at a plant, animal and human level in a decisive way in Lanzarote." In that street view of the culture of water we find utensils, cisterns, alcoves and other architectural works and systems that account for the ingenuity of our people to collect and store water, which in themselves also represent the vicissitudes of an entire town.
