The irrigators of the Tajo-Segura transfer ask the Government for "sanity and logic" and foresee a 2026 of "opposition"

The president of the Central Union of Tajo-Segura Aqueduct Irrigators (Scrats), Lucas Jiménez, called this Monday for the central government to "show wisdom" and act in a "logical manner" for the future planning of available resources, and he predicted "dissension and opposition" from the irrigators to the Ministry in its project to cut water shipments for the coming year. At the presentation of the irrigators' union's 2026 calendar, illustrated by the cartoonist and graphic humorist José Manuel Puebla, the president of Scrats warned that the new exploitation rules will require a legislative change in the transfer law, and he hoped that the Supreme Court "will value the aspects dictated by the Council of State on the poor regulation" and rule in favor of the transfer users in their appeal regarding the cuts in shipments. "However, whatever the sentence, the State will find itself at a crossroads of having a cut approved in 2023 and having to approve the exploitation rules by ...