SPAIN WATER

BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission was due to meet the Spanish government on Monday (3 May) about how European Union (EU) finds might support the funding of a pared down - but still controversial - Spanish National Hydrological Plan. An announcement was planned for the same day and it was anticipated that some Brussels money would be made available for diverting water from the northern Jucar river basin to the Vinalopó, near Alicante. The progress in what has been a controversial issue follows the election of socialist José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero as ...


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