Publicat on 22 maig 2010 to ARAGON centrist blog.
While has breathed an atmosphere of continuous conflict the issue of water, certain monopolies, especially AgBar, have taken control of the exploitation of this resource in the country.
"We must take control of resources like water? These have been the basis for building an empire more than 3.121 million € per year. With these resources coming out of our water can create employment and alleviate the effects of the crisis. Now he is trying to privatize the sector in Zaragoza, for 10 years partitocracy Aragon refused to shift to Segura, now they are about the transfer to Agbar .
Zaragoza and other water fight.
few months ago, subsidiaries near Aguas de Barcelona (Agbar) are gaining the contracts for the exploitation of water in the localities adjacent to Zaragoza. OSTA and UGT trade unions We have reported on 15 January that the Minister of Infrastructures, together with senior technicians are holding meetings with AgBar to negotiate the sale of municipal warehouse and Water Road, valued at € 4 million. This store is unique in Aragon own material and supplies for repair and renewal of the supply network of the city. This is a strategic blow to the sector since being a single repository is capable of marking the price to be paid to AgBar Administration to get the parts. But the qualitative step is privatization of full service. It is a service that caters to 600,000 people, and industry local water. Today is the second largest staff after OPEL, in Aragon. The turnover is considerable.
Also OSTA has been claiming that Jerónimo Blasco, current Minister of Culture, Major Projects (ex-director of the Water Expo 2008) has refused to meet with them, but if it does AgBar to address this issue of privatization. Yet privatization is not the only gravitating around the City of Zaragoza. The director rejects these accusations.
Privatization is now a cherished project for the political classes of Zaragoza since 2002. At that time was that it proposed PP, citizen mobilization foot stopped him at that time. A broad political platform and made public, after several victories, the matter was closed. Although different sectors tried to join this battle against privatization in the fight against the transfer, taking advantage of at that time was the PP who ruled the city.
PSOE is now Juan Alberto Belloch with partner Aragonesista Party which attempts to advance in the concession to the multinational AgBar. According to the UGT trade union representatives, CSL OSTA and privatization that has been in other places has resulted in the deterioration of service, higher prices, loss of property by the City and loss of transparency in service is public.
Each watershed in their community, and Caixa AgBar in all.
The highlight is that what is beginning to speak across sectors Aragon is curious that a community that defends against water transfers, has to endure now how our politicians selling off (or give away the company of Barcelona) our water. " Some years ago, in another internet forum, raised "we must not forget that the interests of workers and society most of Aragon have less to do with the interests of the chiefs and business leaders here, who with interests of workers in the catchment. "
real situation before us is how the local party politics take 10 years to face the English to be them, bureaucracies cacique of each region that can manage this resource.
We have forgotten a concept as basic as water is ours. Necessary as the air that we demand 13 times per minute.
Moreover the local party politics have been joined in flight for years to sell out this resource to the highest bidder and this AgBar. AgBar water is behind Zaragoza, but most Funny thing is that for years also controls the water Murcia. One way to get a few extra billion to finance the breed and feed this or that family monopoly.
Agbar Water operates in all regions of Spain. From here, have brought the resources to mount an empire with a turnover € 3.121 million per year. Is in Algeria, Cuba, China, Mexico, United Kingdom and Colombia, and participates in 150 companies. It is an empire, but the economic base of this is our water bills, our water.
At one time this company is not fully national, as most think, but 56% is French, the Suez Canal, and the rest of the Caixa.
do not want the water to flow out to the community next door but we pay the Suez Canal and the Caixa our rivers for drinking.
From these facts we get two evidences. We must recover quickly realized that water is a national resource available to citizens, not the political classes in each province or city, much less of a French multinational that is introduced to plunder through the bank of the Catalan nationalist bourgeoisie. If the water is ours, the billions coming out of it should be reinvested in the country, serving all. More with the amount of resources we need to overcome the crisis, and the amount of resources needed to alleviate the chronic drought afflicting the south of Spain and growing areas in the north.
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