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The Socialists consider more necessary measures for the defense of water resources and hope that this measure will be added to the acceptance of the allegation that they submitted to the General Plan of Urban Planning to the risk of overexploitation and contamination of aquifers produced by the Notable impact of large farms

The Municipal Socialist Group has asked the government team to create a new Municipal Environmental Verification Rate, including it in the Ordinance for the Protection of the Environment, or a Specific Ordinance for Intensive Agriculture through a Regulation of Inspection of the The threat of overexploitation and contamination of aquifers in our city.

The socialist spokesperson, Asun Molina, recalled that "in recent years, we have witnessed how they have settled, in different parts of the municipal district of Yecla have developed large farms intensive different from traditional agriculture and our own area. And given the uncertainty and concern about the future of the aquifers in our subsoil, we consider insufficient the measures adopted in the full May plenary session because it does not control the waters with remnants of plant protection products, which will certainly contaminate our subsoil.

For Molina, "from the City Council, we must take the maximum possible measures to protect our environment and our aquifers, so we raise this proposal and we also return to claim the approval of the allegation that we raised a couple of months ago to the General Management Plan Urbana so that the limitation of these farms can be introduced in the same one ".

The socialists advocate demanding these plantations to make sustainable use of our natural resources in order to guarantee them in the future and, thus, propose a rate whose funds would generate could be spent to pass public inspections every six months to Ensure that these large farms operate under the guidelines of the Environmental Regulation and that plant protection products and pesticides comply with established regulations.

Asun Molina points out that "these inspections should be numerous and important, since in case of not complying with these legal requirements, it should be punished with large economic fines and also transferred to the Hydrographic Confederation of Segura to study the withdrawal of the license ".

Source: PSOE Yecla