The Murcia Region Accuses the Government of Lying about Desalination Plants: "Neither Interconnected nor Functioning"

The president of the Murcia Region, Fernando López Miras, has accused the Government this Thursday of "lying" when pointing to desalination as an alternative to the Tajo-Segura transfer because, as he has underlined, "half of the desalination plants are not functioning and are not interconnected either". In statements to Cadena Cope collected by Efeagro, he has insisted that desalinated water cannot replace the flows that arrive from the aqueduct because its price is not competitive - 40 percent higher - the generation process is polluting, and, moreover, "technically it is impossible to take it to certain inland elevations". For this reason, faced with the new operating rules of the Tajo-Segura that cut shipments in half, the president of the Murcia Region has defended the approval of a National Water Plan that recognizes the validity of the transfer and complements it with underground, regenerated, and desalination waters. "Desalinated water is important as a complement, but it ...