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Deputy Jesus Navarro also referred as an "exceptional situation" that suffered the Baths of Mula, who recently had a flow rate of 40 liters per second and now is only 10 to 11 liters per second, which prevents normal operation

The deputy of the Socialist parliamentary group, Jesus Navarro, denounced the unfortunate situation where the Mula river and demand is the Hydrographic Confederation of Segura and the Ministry to carry out the actions necessary to ensure the maintenance of ecological flow and health perming same, to ensure its continuity.

The Mula river has a catchment area of ​​64 kilometers, at a rate that is historically suffering a situation of water scarcity has meant that the channel remains dry in important sections, especially in the area downstream from La Puebla de Mula, where the channels of the river Mula and Pliego meet.

Jesus Navarro explained during the debate on this motion in the House of the Assembly, this makes the municipalities of Albudeite and Campos del Río, which traditionally are filled these waters to irrigate their gardens, suffer continuous damage to their crops shortages or no availability of water resources.

"This situation is exacerbated in times of drought, as the previous hydrological year, with indexes own rainfall in a desert area, but also by overexploitation of the waters of this basin that has an abundance of wells and, more recently, also for the containment of Pliego river flows through the dam of the same name ".

The consequence is that the water needs to run along the bed of the river Mula is nonexistent in large sections, so that besides the problem already outlined the lack of flows to comply with the concessions assigned to the different communities of irrigators, like Campos del Río for example, unsafe situations and environmental damage difficult to remedy, in addition to the problems arising from the lack of cleanliness and adequacy of the channel to mitigate possible effects of floods and avenues that may occur occur.

Navarro recalled that pending approval of the Management Plan of the Special Area of ​​Conservation "Mula and Pliego River", one of the fourteen areas of integrated planning that make up the protected areas in the Region of Murcia, and could solve many of the current problems in the basin of these rivers as far as the maintenance of its ecological flow is concerned, and also for the maintenance and cleaning of the channel.

Therefore, the Socialist deputy requires the Hydrographic Confederation of Segura to take measures to enable increased control and monitoring of the use of river flow to prevent opening of wells and illegal logging, and to establish the obligation to the communities of irrigators to install mechanisms of control over the flow used.

Also it calls on the Hydrographic Confederation of Segura to establish a system to ensure minimum flows for irrigation to all communities of irrigators who have recognized its right, in order to ensure the crops.

It also urges turn to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment to increase the budget for cleaning, maintenance and environmental rehabilitation runway Mula river.

Finally Navarro also referred as an "exceptional situation" that suffered the Baths of Mula, "who recently had a flow rate of 40 liters per second and now is only 10-11 liters per second, which prevents normal operation, although its hotel facilities are a minimum performance. "

In the discussion of this motion they have been present mayors of Mula, Juan Jesus Moreno and the mayor of Campos del Rio, Maria Jose Perez Ceron.

Source: PSRM-PSOE