The Island Executive Committee of the PSOE of Lanzarote has once again demanded the public management of water on the island, as agreed in a proposed resolution approved at its last meeting, held in the Casa del Pueblo of Arrecife this Saturday, September 21.
The proposed resolution states that, “given the very serious water situation, the PSOE of Lanzarote reaffirms that the solution involves rescuing the public management of water and managing it directly, with policies far from mercantilist interests, so that they are at the strict service of the general interest and sufficiently cover the needs of families and businesses at reasonable prices.”
“It is essential to ensure the supply to the population”
For the PSOE, water is an indispensable element for the life of the planet, it is a public good and it is a human right. In Lanzarote, water is also “a basic necessity that has a strategic character, since it hardly rains and drinking water is obtained by desalinating sea water, which is a very expensive process”, he specifies.
For these reasons, “it is essential to ensure the supply to the population and avoid any lack of supply or cut. However, it has already been more than a year since Coalición Canaria and the Partido Popular govern in the Cabildo and, far from improving, the production and supply of water have become a very serious problem”, says the general secretary of the Socialist Party of Lanzarote, María Dolores Corujo.
“False promises of Coalición Canaria and the Partido Popular”
Corujo adds: “The volume of losses in the network is intolerable, the water cuts in the towns are constant, the water pipeline to the north suffers inexplicable delays, agriculture does not get a regular supply to water the crops and the direct discharges into the sea of untreated water border on the scandalous, both from the point of view of the marine environment and of good tourist practices in a World Biosphere Reserve.”
For the PSOE of Lanzarote, the terrible water situation is a consequence of “the false promises of Coalición Canaria and the Partido Popular, their inability to solve the problem and their lack of interest in the company that has the concession for the integral water cycle, Canal Gestión, doing its job well.”