The Government has approved a transfer of 33 cubic hectometres for supply from the Headwaters of the Tagus to the Segura Basin for the fourth and last quarter of the hydrological year, which covers the months of July to September. This means reducing the amount corresponding to the supply for the Community of the Taibilla Canals by 6 cubic hectometres, which forces the restriction of non-essential uses of water, such as the filling of swimming pools, the irrigation of parks and gardens or the washing of streets.

This reiterates the need already pointed out last Monday by the Commission for the Operation of the Tajo-Segura Aqueduct, in terms of restrictions on certain uses that must be established by the City Councils and the Autonomous Communities of Valencia and Murcia, in the same line of the decisions adopted last year in Andalusia, Catalonia and Madrid.

The Government has taken this decision using the same criteria of maximum prudence that it used in the meetings of the past Councils of Ministers that have addressed this issue, giving absolute priority to guaranteeing human supply throughout the hydrological year, taking into account the drastic drop in rainfall in the reservoirs at the headwaters of the Tagus. whose levels today stand at 306 cubic hectometres, and are at 12.4% of their capacity.