The Popular Party of Tinajo regrets that the municipal government has not yet met with the residents of La Santa "to inform them, as the closest institution, of the new desalination plant project that is planned to be built in the town in order to supply agricultural water to different points of Tinajo and Teguise."
"Although the City Council is not directly responsible for the project, as it corresponds to the Government of the Canary Islands," the populars point out that they miss that "in addition to speaking in the media, municipal officials have not summoned the neighbors, fishermen, farmers and ranchers to share the information they may have or the measures they plan to adopt in this regard."
In this sense, the PP candidate for Mayor, Ramón Ortiz, has "been able to verify the concern and discomfort that exists among these sectors due, fundamentally, to the lack of information from the administrations involved, including the Cabildo of Lanzarote and La Graciosa, which until now has not summoned the different sectors to give them an account of the details of the installation."
Ortiz believes that "the Tinajo City Council must assume the concern and uncertainty that the project is generating among the residents and professionals of La Santa and intercede with the Cabildo and other higher administrations so that they are attended to and their doubts are cleared."
"Assuming that it is an infrastructure demanded for years and absolutely necessary, it is essential to explain how it will be developed, whether or not the filtration well has been eliminated, whether the location of the brine outfall can be eliminated or displaced, whether the open storage ponds will affect the quality of the water or not. In short, all these doubts are the ones that have to be resolved and then act accordingly," explains Ramón Ortiz.
From the PP of Tinajo they reproach the local government that "it has only met with the group of surfers and has not had interest in traveling to La Santa to know in situ the feeling of the neighbors, tell them about the steps that are being taken and also collect their requests."