The Delegate of the Government, Sabrina Moh, has made it clear that water is a competence of the local government and that “they are the ones who must manage this and they must manage it in the best possible way so that citizens do not have to continue suffering these water cuts in the 21st century”.
The highest representative of the Government of Spain in our city recalled that the competence on water management belongs to the Executive of Melilla and that “the transfer of competence, when it was done, was all perfectly conditioned”, while stressing that it is a work that has cost 30 million euros.
He has therefore made it clear that the accusations that have been made by the Imbroda Government against the Guadalquivir Hydrographic Confederation (CHG) and against the Government of the Nation “are not true”.
What is more, the head of the Government Delegation has stressed the inconsistencies of the people given that, in the last legislature, when they were in opposition “they continuously asked for the resignation of the Environment Minister for water cuts”. “It is the most absolute inconsistency,” he said, referring to the request of the people for such requests for resignations in the last legislature, but nevertheless, when they are the ones who manage this matter, “they hold the Central Government and the Guadalquivir Hydrographic Confederation responsible.”
Moh also referred to the promise of the leaders of the PP that “we were going to have mineral water in a month and a half” in reference to the statements made by the former Minister of the Environment, Manuel Ángel Quevedo, in September 2023. “We have gone from the minute of Marín, which goes from 60 seconds to 7 months, to the month and a half of Quevedo, which has already been two years and we do not know when it ends, to have water,” he said.
Continuing with the statement of the popular leader, Moh has stressed that it is true that “we have mineral water, because if people want to shower they will have to go to the supermarket to buy a carafe”.
PP inconsistency
In her statement to the media, the Delegate recalled that the Executive of the PP is constantly blaming her for these water cuts, but, nevertheless, “today they call a meeting of which the Delegate, by the way, learns in the press”. “If the Delegate is competent, does the President convene a meeting that the Delegate is not in?” he questioned.
In fact, in Moh’s words, “they are themselves, with their actions, implying that the competition is really theirs, which is what we have been saying for all this time, and that it is they who have to solve this water problem.” Something, he has apostilled, that the Melillenses know. “Melillense citizens pay their taxes on the issue of water to the Autonomous City,” he concluded.