The company in charge of water management in Lanzarote, Canal Gestión, is considering transferring control of the integral system of this resource to another company. As La Voz has learned, the Lanzarote subsidiary of Canal Isabel II, immersed in constant controversy over daily supply cuts, has been meeting and holding conversations with up to three different companies.
During his intervention in the morning program Buenos días, Lanzarote of Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero, the Councilor for Water of the Island Council, Domingo Cejas, assured that "officially not" they have evidence of meetings between Canal Gestión and other companies. "Unofficially, we do have evidence that he has been making invitations and seeing the possibility of transferring this asset, but it clearly shows that things are falling into place," Cejas confessed.
According to La Voz, the meetings are being held directly from Canal Isabel II in Madrid and, apart from Canal Gestión Lanzarote. In addition, among the companies that have met is the citizen services group FCC, to which the multinational Aqualia belongs.
The situation of Canal Gestión on the island is at a critical point, even announcing supply cuts in up to 36 towns in Lanzarote in a single day. The president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Oswaldo Betancort, reported at the end of August that "after receiving a preliminary and conclusive report" on the work of Canal Gestión on the island, they had concluded that "there have been very serious breaches in recent years" and that this could "lead to the initiation of the file."
However, in September, Canal Gestión responded to Betancort's statements and assured that it had not received until then "any official communication" nor the complete file that it had requested from the Cabildo of Lanzarote and the Water Consortium on "the alleged breaches that are attributed to us in the execution of the contract."
Meanwhile, the PSOE of Lanzarote, led by Dolores Corujo, demanded again the "public and direct management of water on the island" and the resignation of the head of Water on the island, Domingo Cejas, a request that was also joined by the Citizen Water Board of Lanzarote.
For his part, Cejas has responded to both statements: "I deeply regret the situation that the island is experiencing and I consider myself responsible for not being able to give an immediate response. I deeply regret that Dolores Corujo has asked me for that resignation knowing perfectly well the responsibility she had for four years. What I have done as soon as I arrived is to try to channel and give a response and I continue in this line."