We are in the middle of 2025, and yet in Lanzarote we are once again suffering general water cuts on the island, which remind us of times past, when opening a tap was a privilege. Today, the water that is produced is not enough for everyone, and the island lives with the sensation of going back in time, while the political leaders remain silent.
In areas such as Puerto del Carmen, the situation is unsustainable: residents who have been without supply for weeks, tanker trucks traveling the streets as if we were in another era, and a population that feels abandoned. How is it possible that on an island that prides itself on being an international tourist destination, its own inhabitants are not guaranteed such a basic resource as water?
But water is just the tip of the iceberg. The housing crisis is increasingly alarming, the shopping basket continues to rise without stopping, car and home insurance increases year after year, and many citizens, with increasingly lower salaries, do not even make it to the 15th.
Meanwhile, we continue to feed an uncontrolled tourism model, which multiplies the consumption of resources and leaves residents in the background. Is this really the future we want for Lanzarote? An island where tourism benefits and the resident survives?
Political management is conspicuous by its absence. There are no explanations, there are no short-term solutions, there is no real planning. And the question is inevitable: how much further are we going to go?
Gentlemen leaders: listen once and for all. Lanzarote is not what it used to be, and it will be even less so if we continue down this path. An island that does not take care of its people, its land and its resources, is doomed to die, not by the passage of time, but by mismanagement.
