Spain: Murcia and Valencia threaten to challenge the Ebro-Barcelona water transfer in the Constitutional Court

Murcia and Valencia have threatened to place an appeal before the Constitutional Court against the Government’s plans to run a new 60km long pipeline from Tarragona to Barcelona to supply the city of Barcelona with drinking water. The planned pipe will be fed from an existing feed to Tarragona which takes water from the mouth of the Ebro river.

During the election campaign the Socialists said that they would not be transferring water in such a way, and the regional governments of Murcia and Valencia are now demanding that their dry regions, and that of Almería, also be served by such pipelines.