The president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote and regional deputy of CC, Oswaldo Betancort, publicly demands that the PSOE and the Government of Pedro Sánchez comply with the agreement with the Canary Islands to finance various hydraulic infrastructure works with 20 million euros.
According to reports in various regional media outlets today, the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands will not receive the 20 million committed in 2024 by the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, to address the water crisis facing the islands, which were intended to finance modernization works of the integral water cycle infrastructure, both in supply and in sanitation and wastewater treatment.
"We demand that the PSOE of Lanzarote urge the central government to reverse this situation or they will be the cause of aggravating the water crisis that Lanzarote and La Graciosa are experiencing," says Oswaldo Betancort.
"It is a real outrage to the interests of all Canarians that, with three islands in a water emergency, the socialist government deprives all citizens of the archipelago of the necessary funding to improve water production and treatment. They treat us like second or third-class citizens and we are not going to allow it," adds the president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote.
The agreement for state funding for hydraulic infrastructure was guaranteed last May by Minister Montero in a response to the deputy of Coalición Canaria, Cristina Valido, during a control session in the Congress of Deputies. However, the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, which is responsible for subsidizing the works, "has not received any proposal in this regard."
The president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote points out that "if this situation is not corrected, Lanzarote will stop receiving 2.5 million euros to expand the current WWTP, Wastewater Treatment Plant, of Playa Blanca and the towns associated with this infrastructure."