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The Popular Municipal Group submits to the Ordinary Plenum of June that the City Council of Eagles urges the Council of Government to in turn urge the Government of the Nation to create a Public Water Bank that allows the Assignment of Rights between basins And also favors the assignment contracts or exchange centers between Irrigating Communities.

"The legislation on water in our country has been timidly exploiting the possibility of developing contracts for the transfer of water rights. This possibility has been regulated in our Water Law for more than ten years and has been shown as a possibility Real balance of concessions of water concessions, although the regulated procedure is still very cumbersome and the need for the prior authorization of the basin organization has been limiting the agility in these exchanges. And users in the delay that these procedures often suffer, sometimes causing the course of the months to prevent them from being carried out in the corresponding hydrological years, "said Francisco Navarro, popular vice-speaker.

According to the Popular Group, the case of the very limited assignments of inter-watershed water rights, through the use of interconnection infrastructures, is mentioned separately.

The traditional limitations are those imposed in the existing regulations for transfers, which should not have more limitation than the conditions required for irrigation returns, when the rights to exchanges come from users of irrigation.

The fear of the legislator has in practice provoked the inexistence of this way of internal compensation of the water by going to the regulatory principles of the economic markets.

However, it must be remembered that in the past, when exceptional drought provisions have allowed this, they have been successfully carried out for the two parties concerned and generally for the general interest.

In order to speed up assignments of rights, public water rights banks are still practically non-existent. However, the Segura basin is a territorial area where the existence of an extensive network of infrastructures allows the realization of such exchanges with great possibilities .

In our municipality, the transfer of water rights has been a practice used by the Community of Irrigators that at certain times has been very favorable to be able to guarantee the supply or to offer this "resource" in a more competitive way.

It is also true that the existing bureaucracy and the complexity of such assignments make it increasingly difficult to make use of this tool.

That is why it is essential to develop new ways of exchanging water rights more agile and transparent, to facilitate the legal implementation of agreements between users with idle resources and those driven by peremptory needs.

This will obviously result in a better use of the water distribution infrastructure "

Source: PP �guilas