- Chaired by Francisco Martín, representatives of the agencies and services dependent on various ministries have participated
- The meeting took place at the headquarters of the Tajo Hydrographic Confederation, an autonomous body attached to the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge
The reduction of deadlines and the promotion of new services managed by the different agencies and services dependent on the General Administration of the State (AGE) in the territory of the Community of Madrid are two of the objectives that have been put in common during the Commission of Assistance to the Government delegate that has been held today at the headquarters of the Confederation Hidrográfico del Tajo (CHT).
The choice of this location for the meeting was, in the words of the delegate of the Government of Spain in the Community of Madrid, Francisco Martín, who presided over it, a way of highlighting the “extraordinary work” carried out by this autonomous body, as demonstrated during the last episodes of heavy rains that the region has suffered and whose State aid has already been processed.
Francisco Martín highlighted the importance of this meeting that serves to “share the starting point and set the challenges” for the future to continue working on behalf of all Madrileños and Madrileñas. In this regard, he reiterated that the commitment of the Government of Spain and all public employees of the General Administration working in the region is “maximum”.
The meeting was attended by the Government Delegation, the Deputy Government Delegate, Pilar Trinidad, and the Secretary General, Pablo Izquierdo; together with them, the Superior Chief of the National Police, Javier Galván; Major General Fernando Mora, Chief of the 1st Zone of the Civil Guard; representatives of the Ministries of Interior, Labour and Social Economy; Economy, Trade and Enterprise; Inclusion, Social Security and Migration; Transport and Sustainable Mobility; Finance and Digital Transformation and Public Service.
They have been joined by representatives of other bodies such as Penitentiary Institutions; the General Directorate of Traffic; the Treasury of Social Security; the National Institute of Social Security; the Tax Agency; the State Meteorology Agency; the Social Institute of the Navy; RENFE, ADIF and ENAIRE; the General Mutuality of Civil Servants of the State (MUFACE); the Telecommunications Inspectorate of Madrid, and the National Institute of Statistics.
Objective of the Government Delegate Assistance Commissions
The holding of these meetings helps to improve the coordination of AGE services in the territory and offer a global vision of the action of government policies in the region.
Its convocation responds to the competences entrusted to the Government delegate to direct, coordinate and supervise the activity of the General Administration of the State and its public agencies in accordance with the instructions of the higher bodies of the respective ministries.
Automatic System of Hydrological Information of the Tagus
On this occasion, the Commission was held at the headquarters of the CHT. The attendees, led by its president, Antonio Yáñez, have been able to visit the Automatic System of Hydrological Information of the Tagus (SAIH Tajo), a system of real-time transmission of the information captured by the different sensors at the control points located in the Tagus basin.
Currently, the SAIH Tajo has 214 control points that have the necessary equipment to collect data, process it, store it and transmit it to the River Basin Control Center (CCC). They are able to provide information regarding the flow rates through the main rivers and tributaries of the basin, volume packed, flow rate drained by dams, rainfall, etc.
One of the main objectives of the SAIH Tajo is the prevention and effective warning against floods, in order to have a prior knowledge of what was happening in the basin from a hydrological and hydraulic point of view to be able to apply appropriate measures to any hydrological scenario.
Through the SAIH Tajo it has been possible to manage the avenues of the four consecutive borrascas that took place during the month of March 2025 (Jana, Konrad, Laurence and Martinho), in addition to others of lower intensity in April, which have left throughout the basin historical values of bottled water and precipitation.
The management of the avenues deriving from these flushes not only made it possible to achieve these very high levels of volume of bottled water (9,501.64 hm³ - 85.98% of the total capacity), but also, as a matter of priority, avoided significant damage to goods and people, having provided constant information in real time, during the episodes of the avenue, both to the competent authorities in civil protection, and to the general public, through the Automatic Hydrological Information System (SAIH) managed by the Tajo Hydrographic Confederation.
Water Analysis Laboratory
The Tajo Hydrographic Confederation (CHT), an autonomous body attached to the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, has its own Water Analysis Laboratory that has been operating since the 1960s, growing and developing in both human resources and technical equipment.
Currently, the CHT laboratory performs more than 130,000 analyses annually on more than 4,000 water samples, including surface and continental groundwater, as well as urban wastewater. In addition, the laboratory has specialized sections in microbiology, ecological status control, general analysis, metals, chromatography and a quality department.
Obtaining accreditation according to the ISO 17025 standard in 2008 was a very significant milestone. Since then, constant work has been carried out to include more and more parameters, with the aim of covering all those contemplated in the current water and environment regulations.
In 2025 the laboratory has extended accreditation granted by the National Accreditation Entity (ENAC), in accordance with the ISO 17025 standard, incorporating new analysis parameters.
The new accredited scopes include the determination of various hazardous substances in continental waters, as established in Royal Decree 817/2015, which establishes the criteria of surface water quality. In particular, accreditation has been obtained for 21 polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), several compounds of the chlordane family, prometrine, pentachlorobenzene and chlorfenvinphos-trans, all of them of special relevance in the monitoring and control of chemical contamination of waters.
In addition, accreditation has been achieved for the identification and counting of nematode eggs in regenerated waters, which allows a more rigorous control of this water resource, complying with the quality required by current environmental regulations.