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The Platform calls for the monument protection it deserves as a Cultural

Murcia, February 8, 2010 .- The Government delegate in Murcia, Rafael González Tovar, met this morning with a representation of the Platform for the Defence of the Wheel of The Ñora, which has expressed its readiness to support project and submit for Recovery of this monument from the 1% cultural Ministry.

Tovar Gonzalez congratulated this group for the work being done for the preservation of "a monument is a symbol of tradition, history and regional agriculture."

In this regard stated that "when all appeal to the rational use of water is always in Murcia as the best argument in defense of the Tajo-Segura, can not be abandoned, without a doubt the best example the wisdom of our irrigators in water use. "

For their part, members of the Platform have exposed the poor state González Tovar Wheel, both of the monument itself and its environment, and pointed out that with the creation of it aimed at making it pay attention to the monument and the protection accruing to him as a Cultural.

They also recalled that when the Autonomous Region filed for Heritage for the Council of Good Men, committed to UNESCO to restore the wheel and the aqueduct of the Ñora, but until now no initiative known regard.

However, to date, the only intervention to improve the hydraulic complex was carried out by the State, through the Segura basin, which in 2007 invested 59,000 euros to rehabilitate the water infrastructure affecting the canals of the Board of Landowners: the Mayor or Afjufía, Churra Alfatego and the Old, as well as water distribution is done at the point of referral.

Stop the deterioration of the garden

Both the delegate of the Government as Platform members have agreed on the need to halt the deterioration of the garden, from the standpoint of agriculture, landscape and environment, and from it on the conservation of streams and other infrastructure hydraulic, especially when it comes to cases like the wheel of La Ñora, "that citizens feel as a symbol of regional culture and whose image has always been linked to that of Murcia."

Finally, Gonzalez Tovar stated that "in addition to my support, the Platform has my appreciation for his selfless work in defense of this common heritage and their struggle to prevent the neglect suffered by the wheel do the Nora can not be seen by future generations under the same conditions as ours was given.

It would be regrettable that after centuries of life, a few years of neglect the downgrade. "

Source: Delegación del Gobierno en Murcia