The Supreme Court dismisses the appeal of the Government of Murcia against the Tagus Hydrological Plan

The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal filed by the Government of the Region of Murcia against Royal Decree 35/2023, which revises the hydrological plans of, among others, the Tagus and the Segura, with the aim of reversing the former to avoid cuts in transferrable water. The Supreme Court ruling rejected the demand filed by the Murcian Government in April 2023 against the royal decree that set the new hydrological plans. The demand was formalized in February 2024, when the spokesperson for the Government of Murcia, Marcos Ortuño, explained that the new hydrological plan for the Tagus contemplated in that royal decree involved a reduction in the transfer of water to the Segura "that can reach 100 hectometres cubic per year", and this without offering any "viable or realistic alternative" to replace that water. Ortuño argued then that the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge acted "arbitrarily" in the drafting of these documents, which were ...