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The president of the Hydrographic Confederation of Segura (CHS), José Salvador Fuentes Zorita, gave yesterday the closing conference of the XXXII National Congress of Young Geographers, held in the city of Murcia, at the invitation of the Association of Young Geographers Murcia (Geomur .)
Fuentes Zorita explained the unique experience that has brought the problem of urban water supply in the Segura basin, ensuring the provision in the period of most severe drought that has had this area of the Iberian Peninsula.
For this, the president of the CHS gave the example the distribution channels of the Commonwealth of Taibilla (MCT), one of the transport infrastructure of high-art water and reliable in the world.
The president of the basin organization highlighted the difficulties of building a network of fully interconnected frequency distribution of water, a unique model in Europe, more precisely in the area around the Mediterranean dry.
Also influenced the importance of resources from desalination, which in 2009 exceeded 90 hectometres as a means to offset the deficits of the Tajo-Segura or contributions Taibilla header.
Murcia has hosted this year's Congress of Young Geographers annual meeting was held last year in the Asturian town of Pola de Laviana, and in this edition under the title "postmodern city in front of the historic city: a policonsecuente multidisciplinary phenomenon ", has addressed the so-called urban geography and its relation to spatial planning and landscape.
We also examined various elements of urban development, focusing on those that are a problem for citizenship (destruction of historic sites, air pollution and massive use of private transport.)
Source: CHS
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