The Mayor of Torre-Pacheco, Antonio Leon, accompanied by members of the Municipal Corporation, municipal workers and neighbors have participated this morning in the rally called by the City Council at 12.00 in the Plaza Mayor Pedro Jiménez, in support of irrigators who at the same time they were demonstrating in Madrid to demand solutions to the lack of water resources.
The councilor of Agriculture of Torre-Pacheco, Alberto Galindo is in Madrid together with our farmers, to demand solutions to the lack of water resources.
The Mayor of Torre-Pacheco in his speech has shown his support and that of the Corporation to our farmers;
Likewise, the spokesman of the government team, Carlos López has read the manifesto of the Community of Irrigators of Campo de Cartagena, which appeals to the whole country about the situation of extreme gravity that lives in the Levantine orchard and warns of the danger of desertification;
"We make a desperate call for a definitive solution to the historical problems of water scarcity that we are suffering, because without water, desert and unemployment, we defend the garden of Europe", with these words the manifesto elaborated by the conveners ends.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Torre Pacheco