Castile-La Mancha demands that the transfer rules be modified "once and for all"

The Government of Castilla-La Mancha has demanded this Friday "that the rules for the exploitation of the Tajo-Segura transfer be modified once and for all" and has advocated for a change in strategy "thinking, not only about the needs of the donor basin, but also about climate change." This is how the Minister of Sustainable Development, Mercedes Gómez, spoke when asked by journalists about the Supreme Court rulings regarding the ecological flows and the rules for the exploitation of the transfer. Gómez explained that part of these rulings "imposed" ecological flows that included the middle Tajo up to Talavera de la Reina (Toledo) and that reflected the hydrological planning of 2023. However, she continued, "the fundamental problem" is that in that planning approved in 2023 "it was also said that within a year a modification of the rules for the exploitation of the transfer would be brought to the National Water Council." In this regard, she recalled that "the year was fulfilled ...