The Local Committee of Nueva Canarias-Bloque Canarista (NC-bc) in Haría expresses its discomfort with the water situation in the northern region of the island, which they describe as "unsustainable."
Given the open debate on breaches by Canal Gestión, the possible sanctions to the company with a termination of the contract, and the intention of the Haría City Council to appear legally against the company and the Consortium, the Canaristas maintain the same proposal they stated in the electoral campaign, the need for the municipalities individually to "regain control" of public water, or to regain control of public management by the consortium.
For Marcos Lemes, spokesperson for NC-bc in Haría and Councilor for Health, Environment and Animal Welfare in the northern municipality, "the water situation in Haría has reached a dramatic point, since every day you wake up with entire towns without water," a reality, says Lemes, that "generates a lot of discomfort for the residents who ask for explanations from the administration and the closest public officials, which are the city councils and councilors, and we find ourselves without the capacity to do anything because the control is held by a company from Madrid like Canal Gestión."
That is why, the Canarista points out, "the northern government group has requested its legal services to explore legal actions against Canal Gestión and the Insular Water Consortium, for breaches by the former and for a restriction of the participation of the municipalities by the latter."
"From NC-bc we believe that the privatization of public water was a tremendous business that benefited a few and mortgaged the rest of the population of Lanzarote who suffer from terrible water management that costs us millions of euros a year," maintains Marcos Lemes, who reiterates that "recovering control of water is a matter of general interest and should be an absolute priority for the public administrations of the island."
