La Región de Murcia, a laboratory of experiments savings and efficiency in the use of water: Modernization of irrigation in agrarian and environmental politics of the European Union
Abstract
Water has become in a good very controversial, a bad distributed resource and it worries who has its control in these last years. The modernization of irrigation is interested because it has a space, social, economical, water distribution importance. The Region of Murcia, in recent years has become a laboratory of experience of modernization of irrigation.
In the European Union, the improvement and modernization of irrigation participate of the Common Agrarian Politic (PAC) and the Rural Development, and they also participate of the Environmental Politic (2000/60/CE Directive) and the Sustainable Development.
The new Sustainable Irrigation Plan «Horizon 2013» must collect the Lisboan Strategy proposals about job and competitively and the Gotemburg Declaration proposals about historical and environmental value.
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