Valencia and Murcia want a ‘national pact for water’, which would see more of the precious resource brought from wetter areas of Spain to the dry south-east of the country.
The presidents of the two regions – Carlos Mazón and Fernando López Miras, both from the Partido Popular (PP) – have signed a manifesto calling for the country’s water resources to be ‘linked up’.
They noted that ‘excesses’ of water in the north and west of Spain should be ‘brought to where it is really needed’.
Full report in next Friday’s Costa Blanca News
Why has it taken so long to come up with this proposal? The Romans were doing this 2000 years ago.