The rivers do not understand "national realities." "The banks need "The rivers are more than just H2O channels"
Pedro Arrojo
On Thursday March 17 the Court Constitutional made public a ruling that annulled the transfer Guadalquivir Basin to the Government of Andalusia, and that the State had passed in 2008 by Article 51 of the new Statute of Autonomy. The
ruled unconstitutional and void on the grounds that Article 51 which sets a fragmented approach to the management of the basin and has competence under the State.
addition, the single management of the Guadalquivir basin by the Junta de Andalucía, breached the Water Framework Directive of the European Union, the basic principle is to manage through the basin unit. In this case only be provided if the state competition, the be a watershed that affects many regions.
TC and that same day, also spoke in another decision rejecting the exclusive transfer of the River Duero in Castile and Leon.
"national realities and guide management." know that water is an essential element for life, it is essential for it to develop on our planet, that life arose in water, is based on her and living in a large percentage are water and that the functioning of ecosystems is governed by water-related functional processes.
Water is also an essential commodity for human (or at least I Shall) and it would be an essential resource for the operation of their peoples and states.
also taught us that water is subject to a cycle, "water cycle", which goes by the oceans, through evaporation and subsequent precipitation to the continent, where it accumulates and flows in streams and rivers temporarily allowing the development of life and ecosystem functioning until it again goes to the oceans.
Water management ought not fall into nationalism, provincialism and other leg ... Water is part of nature, and nature knows no borders. Environmental regulation and water ought not to fall in nationalism, regionalism, parochialism and other leg because I fear that the species of flora and fauna, a cloud, a drop of water, rivers, sea, the ecosystem ... nature, do not understand anthropogenic national realities.
the contrary of what happened in our state during the last decade, where the trend has been the transfer and devolution CCAA environmental and water, and thus the fragmentation of environmental policy with different management and a very diverse environmental legislation and, of course, the confrontation between regions and region-states: costs, (Algarrobico, kiosks), national parks (Doñana, Damiel) and watersheds (Tajo-Segura, Ebro transfer.)
would be advisable for some of our parliamentarians and councilors of different autonomous "national circumstances" that make our state recalled some of the ideas or principles of "new water culture" (emerged in the late nineteenth century):
"Managing water from the principle of solidarity, common heritage we have received all generations, and that we convey in the best possible conditions for future generations."
Javier Martínez Gil. "Proposals for the management and use of water in Spain."
About: - quashed the exclusive jurisdiction of Andalusia on the Guadalquivir River . 03/17/2011 WORLD.
- TC void the exclusive jurisdiction of Castile and Leon over the Douro River
- 03/17/2011 TC cancels the transfer of the Guadalquivir basin, the Junta de Andalucía. 03/17/2011 Ambientum.
- Javier Martínez Gil. "Proposals for the management and use of water in Spain. " Water
- .- WWF claims that the rivers are managed by its basin rather than their territorial borders. 21/03/2011 Ecodiario
This exhibition provides the human profile of the conflicts and struggles of the water. Through photographs and eyewitness accounts, the victims no longer a cold live statistics to communicate their fears, hopes and reasons.
