The government delegate, Pedro Blanco, met today with the president of the Mi｟｠ -Sil Hydrographic Confederation, José Antonio Quiroga, to take stock of his management in Galicia. Pedro Blanco highlighted the dynamism of the autonomous body in recent years, which resulted in investments of 62.7 million euros in the Galician provinces of the Mi｟｠ -Sil Demarcation, of which 44.6 million were destined for hydraulic public works and more than 18 million for environmental improvements of waterways. Of this total investment, the delegate said that up to 17 million euros correspond to this year 2023, in which the Confederation “is on track to double last year’s investments”.
Pedro Blanco reviewed with José Antonio Quiroga the projects in which the Confederation is working and those that it will promote in the coming months in a meeting that was held in the Subdelegation of the Government in Ourense and which was also attended by the subdelegate, Emilio González.
From this list, the delegate stressed that most of the investments impact on small municipalities, with which the Confederation collaborates to improve basic public services, such as sanitation, and recover river spaces for citizens.
In this line of work, Pedro Blanco gave as an example the treatment plant of Maceda, inaugurated in March of this year, or the improvement of the sanitation of Coles, which has just ended. A list that is completed with performances in “Vilalba, Sarria, Chantada, Monforte, A Pastoriza, Ourense, O Carballiño, San Cibrao das Viñas, O Carballiño, Xinzo de Limia, Sandiás, Nogueira de Ramuín, A Cañiza or Tomiño, among others”.
The delegate framed these actions in the municipalist vocation of the Government of Pedro Sánchez, “a commitment that involves all levels and agencies of the administration.” “With these investments we see again how the Government collaborates with the municipalities, with all the municipalities, to improve public management and the quality of life of its citizens,” he said.
Responsible management
At the meeting, the delegate and the president of the Confederation agreed on the commitment to the responsible management of water resources, which is transferred to the current Hydrological Plan of the Demarcation, which will be in force until 2027. One of the objectives of this planning is to anticipate the effects of climate change on water management.
Pedro Blanco insisted on the need to address this impact before data such as what has come to be known today, which was revealed by the AEMET, and which points out that “we have come from the end of the warmest and wettest autumn of the historical series, since 1961”. “These are data that concern us and that oblige us to prioritize responsible management of water and the other resources associated with it,” said the delegate.