The Autonomous Environmental Assessment Commission gave the green light this Thursday morning to the planning documents for the third cycle of hydrological planning and the second cycle of the Flood Risk Management Plan for the island of Lanzarote. With this step, the environmental processing of said documents is concluded, whose processing was subrogated by the Government of the Canary Islands in order to accelerate their approval.
The Councilor for Territorial Policy, Territorial Cohesion and Water of the Government of the Canary Islands, Manuel Miranda, explained that the document will continue its processing in the General Directorate of Water "with the aim that it be definitively approved after the summer."
Miranda has reported that of the seven planning documents corresponding to this 2021-2027 cycle, only the one for Lanzarote, which is directly processed by the Government of the Canary Islands, the one for Fuerteventura, whose promotion corresponds to the Island Council, and the one for La Palma, which although it is being processed by the Island Water Council and the Council itself, remain to be approved, "has all the technical and political support of this Ministry so that its approval is not delayed any longer."
He also announced that in a few weeks "the drafting of the documents for the fourth cycle of hydrological planning and the third cycle of flood risk management will begin, with the aim that at the end of this legislature the Canary Islands will be up to date with their planning obligations with the European Union."
For this process, which will begin shortly, "the island councils will have the necessary technical assistance from the Government of the Canary Islands, as an example of the administrative collaboration policy, essential to carry out the projects that this Archipelago has regarding the water cycle," Miranda added.
The hydrological and flood risk management plans are documents that must be approved by the island councils, and establish the actions and measures to achieve the objectives related to the integral water cycle, both in supply and in environmental management of this resource.
