The mayor of Yaiza, Óscar Noda (UPY), registered this Wednesday a writing in the Water Consortium of Lanzarote requesting detailed technical information on the management of the integral water cycle in the last decade, “to address with solvency the island's water problem, because we cannot stand idly by with the latest statistics that warn of almost 60 percent losses in the distribution network of the total cubic meters produced”.
The mayor, candidate to revalidate the mayoralty of Yaiza and candidate to the Cabildo of Lanzarote after the electoral agreement UPY - Nueva Canarias, argues that “all the traditional parties co-responsible for the management of Lanzarote cannot now shy away from the debate with the problem that affects Lanzarote and crudely La Graciosa. Water has to be a central theme of the proactive and high-level political debate in defense of a public, scarce and essential good”.
Noda, who recalls that next June marks 10 years of the management of the integral water cycle by the private company Canal Gestión Lanzarote, asks for a dozen reports on supply, losses, investments, subsidies, purification and agricultural water of the last decade. “If a neighbor has a breakdown in their house, they must pay a large bill to avoid the cut, therefore, the example must start with the responsible production and distribution of water because if it is already inadmissible to lose such a quantity of the liquid, it is worse not to know exactly how much is lost in pipes, how much in deposits or how much in fraud”.
Óscar Noda expresses that “before talking about millionaire investments, which will have to be made, we must first know what is the real dimension of the problem in order to direct the resources”. In his letter sent to the Consortium, Noda highlights that “the balance is discouraging, especially in an Island Biosphere Reserve, which deserves a thorough analysis and commitment to joint actions that lead to optimizing the management of the integral water cycle”.
Among the information requested, Óscar Noda specifies reports not only on the losses, but on the measures adopted; the state of the purification and sanitation system of the Island; brine and wastewater discharges; state of the drinking and agricultural water distribution network; investments made in Lanzarote and La Graciosa; subsidies received; statistics of complaints registered by neighbors for abusive bills; and the amount of purified, regenerated and reused water, complete the battery of concerns of Óscar Noda, who also asks for the minutes of the Monitoring Commission between the Water Consortium of Lanzarote and Canal Gestión.
“Without going any further, Canal Gestión warns of a five-hour cut in the water supply for this Thursday in the tourist town of Playa Blanca, according to reports to undertake improvements in the supply system”, adds the mayor.
