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Experts study the good sustainability of the drain of Moncada in Valencia

14/02/2011

on February 14, 2011

The Royal Acequia of Moncada traditional irrigation system maintains some principles of governance that have allowed it to maintain a sustainability over the last millennium. Thus emerges from the study "fairness and transparency: the management of the water in the Royal Acequia of Moncada", which was presented last week by the teachers of the UPV, sea violet Ortega, Maria Josep Cascant and Guillermo Palau, in collaboration with Vincent salts, President of the Centre for studies of L'horta Nord, and Paul Trawick, Professor at Cranfield University, in the framework of the III Congrés d'Estudis de l'Horta Nord.

As explained by William Palau, Professor of the Etsiamn, "irrigation systems, such as the de la Vega of Valencia and the Royal Acequia of Moncada examples worldwide of sustainability in the exploitation of a common natural resource, which are based on basic principles such as transparency and equity".

This Congress, organized by the Department of Rural engineering and agro-food of the technical school of agronomic engineering and the Natural Environment (Etsiamn), and the Centre d'Estudis de l'Horta Nord, opened last Thursday with a lecture on the Muslim heritage in the current irrigation, in charge of Thomas f. Glick, PhD in history from Harvard University.

In the study presented the case of Moncada was analyzed in depth and opened a framework of discussion for the analysis of irrigation systems modernized in which these principles are more difficult to discern by farmers.

The study explains that "the Royal Acequia of Moncada irrigation system works since the Andalusian to adapt to the social and economic changes of the Valencian orchard." "This system auto-gestionado by the same farmers based on equity and transparency in the allocation of the water".

The Congress continued until the weekend, with the exposure of up to thirty eight papers and contributions in nine areas: history and archaeology, art and heritage, Popular culture, contemporary L'horta, the agricultural space, education, the images of L'hortaSpatial planning and the economic viability of L'horta.

Also, in Centre Cívic of Patriarch Alfara, developed the round table, "The future of l'Horta", after the Path that will focus on the Plan of action Territorial de l'Horta (PATH), with the participation of some of its writers and representatives of civil society, of trade unions of farmers and the academic world.

Palau says that, "the Path is attempting more ambitious and structured by the administrations, to create a legal framework which reconciles the protection of the agricultural area of l'Horta of Valencia with urban needs and development of the peoples that make up." Also processing has led lights and shadows and not the fundamental problem appears resolved. "Therefore consider the discussion in this Congress, because despite its shortcomings, we now have a very important instrument of departure", he said.

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