Majorcan PSOE fights for water access to

The “Modernisation and Improvement of Irrigation in the Central‑South Zone of Fuerteventura” project was approved in the previous legislature with €13.2 million.

The Socialist Party (PSOE) of Fuerteventura is maintaining pressure on the current Canary Islands Government to continue the Central‑South Irrigation Plan that was launched during the previous term and that has already delivered strong results in its first phase for farmers and local food production.

The logical next steps are:

• Extending the irrigation network to every plot in the Tuineje basin where gravity‑fed supply is feasible.
• Repairing the gavias (water channels) in the basin that, because of their location, remain outside the existing network.

Keeping those gavias operational guarantees control of runoff and the recharge of aquifers.

“The qualitative leap that this phase of the project meant for the small farmers of the Tuineje basin must be completed by extending the irrigation network wherever gravity supply is possible and by fixing the gavias that are left out,” said José Cabrera, Secretary of Food and Food Sovereignty for the PSOE of Fuerteventura.

The “Modernisation and Improvement of Irrigation in the Central‑South Zone of Fuerteventura” project was approved in the previous legislature with €13.2 million, funded by the State Society of Agricultural Infrastructures (Seiasa) and the Fuerteventura Island Council.

“It is time for the project to continue its development and turn Tuineje and Fuerteventura into a model that can be exported to other islands for water management in zero‑kilometre food production,” Cabrera added.

The PSOE of Fuerteventura believes the current Canary Islands Government should maximise the positive impact of the Central‑South Irrigation Plan by contracting Seiasa for phases 2 and 3, which would:

• Extend the water distribution network from the Tesejerague reservoir to all plots that can receive gravity‑fed supply.
• Repair and keep operational the gavias that fall outside the expanded network.

“President Clavijo, to be president of all the Canary Islands, must address Fuerteventura with actions and common sense, backing projects that have already proven effective and, above all, that bring positive benefits to the island—both for farmers and landowners and for advancing zero‑kilometre production and food sovereignty,” Cabrera said.

In this sense, continuing the “Modernisation and Improvement of Irrigation in the Central‑South Zone of Fuerteventura” project launched by the previous government “is a safe bet and a far‑reaching political action that could and should serve as an example for other islands,” concluded the Secretary of Food and Food Sovereignty of the PSOE of Fuerteventura.