Shock Plan: Introduction
The Ministries of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Environment will be
responsible for the execution of urgent work for improving and consolidating
irrigation methods aimed at obtaining water savings to palliate the effects of
drought both directly, and through the Government Agrarian Infrastructures
Corporations, Water Corporations, the Tragsa Group and the Irrigation Associations.
This ambitious Plan consists of works that are declared of General Interest in
different Regional Autonomous Communities with projects already drawn up or
under way. The criteria for selecting the areas in which the projects included
in the Royal Decree are to be carried out are focused on areas that currently
have a low hydrological efficacy affecting a large number of farmers.
The projects to be undertaken are aimed at ensuring water SAVINGS and PROMOTING
AN EFFECTIVE USE OF WATER by eliminating losses in distribution, with respect to
both high and low systems and to make it easier for irrigators to have access to
more efficient, automatic irrigation methods. In short, the objective is to
modernise the existing irrigation infrastructures and help irrigators to face
the effects of the current conditions of drought that Spain is suffering as well
as other future periods of drought that have historically affected Mediterranean
countries such as ours.
