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Royal Decree 665/2023 modifies the Regulation of the Public Hydraulic Domain, the Regulation of Public Water Administration, and Royal Decree 9/2005. These modifications respond to the reforms established in the Council's Proposal for the Implementation Decision regarding the approval of Spain's recovery and resilience plan assessment. The main objective of this decree is to simplify the management of the public hydraulic domain and update the regulatory framework to the new existing pressures on the management of the PHD. Measures are included to reduce administrative burdens and promote environmental recovery after forest fires. It also addresses the management of invasive exotic species and plantations in the public hydraulic domain. The text presents modifications to the Hydrological Planning Royal Decree (RDPH) with the aim of streamlining and homogenizing administrative procedures related to water. A simplified regime is established for the discharge of low-impact wastewater, and the digitization of water use control is promoted. Measures are also included to prevent water pollution due to agricultural activity and criteria are established for the protection of groundwater. In addition, a procedure is established to assess damages and define actions in case of localized contamination of an aquifer. Royal Decree 665/2023 modifies the Regulation of the Public Hydraulic Domain (RDPH) in several aspects. The direct discharge of wastewater is prohibited regardless of its content, and indirect discharges are limited, requiring a hydrogeological study for authorization. A new regulatory framework is established for aquifer recharge, and adjustments are made in flood risk planning and management. The mapping of the public domain is also updated, and discharges from the overflow of the sanitation system during rain episodes in cities are regulated. In addition, aspects of the concessionary regime for water use are addressed, and administrative procedures are improved. The modification came into effect on September 20, 2023. [Extracted from the article]

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The judgment of the High Court of Justice of Extremadura, dated July 12, 2023, deals with an administrative appeal filed by a company against a resolution of the Guadiana River Basin Authority. The resolution granted a concession for the use of surface water from the Guadiana River for irrigation on a farm in Logrosán, Cáceres. However, the Authority denied the request for use in another area of the farm due to its inclusion in the Natura 2000 Network. The plaintiff company seeks to annul the resolution and obtain a new favorable Environmental Impact Assessment for the entire farm, including the denied area. The judgment dismisses the appeal and highlights the importance of protecting natural resources in Europe and maintaining habitats and species in a favorable conservation status. [Extracted from the article]

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The article reports that Román Dam hydraulic system is modern historical structure located at Rambla de la Raja (Jumilla, Murcia) to take advantage of flood waters. Topics include considered that it was expanded and continued to function until the second half of the 20th century, when it fell into disuse and the system was traditionally considered to be from Roman times and supposedly linked to the nearby and ancient settlements of La Alberca and Casa de los Cobos.

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The irrigated areas of Bajo Segura, and more specifically the emblematic area of Huerta, have been the object of urban-real estate development until the onset of the economic crisis at the beginning of the 20th century. A territory with a marked tourist duality, inasmuch as it presents a very consolidated and dynamic coastal and pre-territorial space, compared to an interior in which agriculture has a prominent weight and where its municipalities, for years, have tried to access this market. Objective pursued through the development of opposing policies, since, on the one hand, they promote tourist-residential enclaves and, on the other, they bet on the cultural promotion of its most characteristic irrigated landscape. The study addresses this last approach and analyzes the failed attempt to create a product with a direct impact on the agricultural areas of the region based, fundamentally, on knowledge and experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The management of multifunctional irrigation has been debated both in terms of the concern for its socio-economic and environmental impact, and discussions about the public-private interests that emanate from its promotion. According to this, questions about who takes part of the decision-making processes and to what extent they participate or exert some control or influence on the whole stakeholders focus the debate about its legitimacy and governance. This article delves into these aspects from the analysis of a case study, the agroecological corridor formed by the El Hondo Natural Park and Los Carrizales Agrarian Natural Park (Elche, Alicante). From semi-structured interviews and questionnaires and in order to deepen on its management model and the power relations between key stakeholders, the paper analyses 1) the issues that generate the greatest concern and debate on the El Hondo-Los Carrizales agroecological system and 2) the level of governance in decision-making process. Results show a lack of social recognition towards the multifunctionality of both parks, as well as the need to strengthen its management in an integrated and adaptive way, thereby increasing its resilience to the impacts of climate change and maximizing its agronomic potential, both key aspects for the survival of the agroecological system of El Hondo-Los Carrizales. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: since the 2000s the nutritional status of Spanish rural populations has been studied by anthropometric history. But despite this undoubted progress, we hardly have comparative studies on the height and biological inequality between agrarian zones of different productive specialization (irrigated and dryland agriculture).Objectives: to analyse the nutritional inequality in agrarian zones of different productive specialization in Mediterranean Spain (irrigated and dryland agriculture) during the process of modernization.Methods: we use height data of 146,041 conscripts called for recruitment in ten municipalities (72,557 in irrigated areas and 73,514 in dryland areas). We estimate average height, coefficients of variation and percentiles according to agrarian specialization.Results: between the cohorts of 1840 and 1965 the nutritional status improved. The average height grew 9.1 cm. The conscripts measured in the irrigated areas were higher than the conscripts measured in the dryland areas (differences of 1.8 cm). At the end of the study period, the average height growth was greater in the irrigated ones. The analysis of coefficients of variation (CV) and percentiles show, however, that the nutritional inequality was greater in dryland areas.Conclusions: there are significant differences in the average height according to patterns of agrarian specialization in Mediterranean Spain and a clear relative advantage in irrigated areas versus dryland. Various explanatory factors that could be future research lines are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The creation of the Irrigation Consortia, during the first post-war period, changed the social and hydraulic balances of the citricultural region of Palermo (Italy). This paper, based on primary sources, analyses the conflictive relations between the agricultural users, the new and contested institutions for collective action, the owners of the wells, accused of dominating the water market, and the water distributors, judged during the Fascist period for belonging to the mafia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La Sociedad Española de Ornitología, la Confederación Ecologistas en Acción-Coda, Greenpeace España, la Asociación para la Defensa de la Naturaleza ADENA/WWF España y la Asociación Amigos de la Tierra impugnan en este caso la resolución de 14 de febrero de 2012 de la Dirección General del Agua, de aprobación del expediente de información pública y del Anteproyecto (02/09) y Adenda (09/11) del embalse de Biscarrués en el río Gállego, término municipal de Biscarrués (Huesca). Igualmente, se recurre la resolución de 8 de julio de 2011 de la Secretaría de Estado de Cambio Climático, por la que se formula declaración de impacto ambiental del proyecto Embalse de Biscarrués en el río Gállego. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The village of Yéchar, in the middle of the Murcia Region can be studied using the regional geography as a model for rural development initiatives, having overcome various socio-economic crises through different agricultural activities. In the last fifty years, the locals have had to deal with the rural exodus of the dry lands of Southeast Iberian Peninsula with measures taken by local actors and public authorities, which include the area being declared to be of National Interest, the land consolidation of farms, and the transformation of over 800 hectares into irrigated land using water from the Tajo-Segura Transfer. On-the-spot interviews explain how Yéchar farmers change crops to tackle the problems of the fruit and vegetable market, and they look for other water management policies to mitigate the excessive reliance on foreign water resources from the Tajo-Segura Transfer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The city of Valencia favours in 1457, because of the tought drought of years 1455-57, the draining of the pool of Tortajada (Teruel), in order to increase the flow of river Alfambra an so, therefore, the volume of river Turia all his so as to improve the watering of the "Huerta" of Valencia. The present article reports with accuracy on the realization of the project. Although, the results were really disappointing and so, the project was left, this article represents a part of the valencian and turolian hydraulic medieval history and it is as well a good example of the difficulties that promoters of that era ideas had to face up with. Another part of this job is the biography of Rodrigo Marquina, the only one maker that has been identified with the project and he's known as an "expert" in the topic, in fact, he seems to have been very interested in areas that are nowadays related to engineering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on water problems raised in different international forums that have considered Water Crises to be the most serious Global Risk over the next ten years in terms of the significance and severity of potential impacts. Further consideration has been given to the manner in which these risks have materialized as a result of conflicts of varying degrees, the agenda for water within the framework of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), recently approved on 25.09.2015 by the General Assembly of the United Nations, and the current water problems in certain specific areas of this country, with reference to the management procedures overseen by the Ministry of the Environment to achieve a longterm structural solution to the same. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper analyses the process of compilation of legal dispositions corresponding to the huerta of Murcia during the reign of the Catholic kings. The creation of a body of laws for irrigation in Murcia Region was a time-consuming task due to conlicts of economic interests between the Council oligarchy and the Granada campaigns. Since 1470, the critical situation of the huerta, affected by natural factors (loods and droughts) and social (corruption in the institutional framework and non-compliance) was a reality. Legislative reforms undertaken by the kings ended at the beginning of the 16th century with the enactment of the ordinances or laws for the irrigation in Murcia Region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the evolution and changes in water policy in Andalusia during the last decades. The article focuses mainly on the institutional changes, the evolution of the availability of water resources, the agricultural and urban demands and some of the most significant environmental consequences of hydrological policy. Special attention is given to the spatial expression of these phenomena, using water indicators designed in a more general work on territorial development assessment applied to the case of Andalusia (IDTA) that has been carried out at the University of Seville since 1998. The paper highlights the progress in water management over the period, but also the inertias, resistances and new problems associated with the interrelationships between water and land management, in the frame of global change processes affecting Andalusia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents an analysis of the transformation of Spanish agriculture from the late 19th century to the first half of the 20th century due to the use of irrigation, with a focus on the changes produced by the construction of the Urgell Canal in Catalonia. It is the author's view that the Urgell Canal didn't help to achieve a diversification of the local agriculture, particularly the substitution of traditional crops such as cereals, vineyards, and olives, nevertheless an improvement in agricultural productivity was achieved. An historical overview of the construction of the Urgell Canal is offered, along with an economic context of Spain at that time.

The article examines irrigation management by the Spanish Monarchy in nineteenth century Spain. The finance and construction of the irrigation canal known as La Acequia Real del Júcar is explored, as well as the political and territorial reasons involved in determining its placement. The gradual takeover of the canal's management from local authorities by the monarchy is described. The author concludes that the conflicts surrounding the construction of the canal did not affect its ultimate implementation or the autonomy of those who would make use of the canal.

An inhabitant in the farmhouse of Mondujar, called Mahomad Abencaxon, in 1440, donated half a night of water to the land of the mosque in Acequias, a small site in the Valley of Lecrin. The church got these habices goods after the conquest of Muslim territories and several years afterward lawsuits about these rights ensued. In one of them, some water was stolen by several inhabitants of Acequias from Juan Maldonado Hafiz, who had rented the land. He reported the theft to authorities of the Valley of Lecrin. The case was brought to the justice of Granada where the inhabitants of Acequias were condemned. Evidence presented by witnesses allows us to collect relevant information on the Muslim past of this region in the kingdom of Granada. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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