The President of the Community, Fernando López Miras, announced the start of construction work on the North and South rainwater collectors in San Javier, and stressed that this initiative “will reduce and minimise the impact of torrential rains both in the urban area of the municipality and in the Mar Menor”. In addition, he reported that the network of collectors “will be joined by a lamination reservoir that will collect the first runoff water for purification and subsequent use in irrigation,” and recalled that “these works are included in the Zero Discharge Project, as far as the Community is concerned. The head of the regional executive also announced that the Community’s Administration and Services Sectoral Committee, which met this morning, had approved the creation of 31 structural posts in the Regional Ministry of Water, “both for the protection and regeneration of the Mar Menor and to meet the new needs arising from the competences and work that the regional executive wants to take on, in view of the inaction of the central government”. “We are acting, implementing measures and taking the initiative in the recovery of the Mar Menor,” said López Miras, who expressed his desire that “the central government does not shirk any kind of responsibility.
