The councillor of Iniciativa por La Gomera (IxLG), Guzmán Correa, has demanded that the Cabildo explain the results of the water collection project using fog nets, funded with nearly one million euros in 2021. The party insists on knowing how much water has been collected in these five years.
The island councillor and spokesperson for Iniciativa por La Gomera (IxLG), Guzmán Correa Marichal, has requested that the governing group of the Cabildo Insular de La Gomera inform about the results obtained from the water collection project using fog nets. The initiative was funded with a grant of nearly one million euros granted by the Government of the Canary Islands in November 2021.
Correa Marichal recalls that when this initiative was presented, it was publicly announced as an “exemplary project” to increase the island's water resources and even as an experience that could be implemented in other islands of the Archipelago. However, nearly five years have passed since that funding without the publicly known results achieved.
A question in the plenary
During the ordinary plenary session held this Friday, July 3, the councillor of IxLG raised the question of how much water has been collected by the fog collector installations since they were put into operation. The question arises after the project was announced and funded nearly five years ago.
From Iniciativa por La Gomera, they believe that any public investment of this magnitude must be accompanied by a transparent and objective evaluation. This would allow knowing whether the planned objectives have been met and what the actual performance of the installations has been.
Citizens' right to know
Correa Marichal stated that “citizens have the right to know whether an investment close to one million euros has yielded the expected results and what the effective contribution of this project has been to improving the water resources of La Gomera.”
He also added that having verifiable data will allow assessing the effectiveness of this technology. It will also help make the most appropriate decisions for future investments in water management on the island.
“Beyond the announcements made at the time, it is now time to offer concrete results and account for the degree of compliance with a project that was presented as a benchmark for the Canary Islands, to see if it is true or not,” the councillor concluded.
La Gomera suffers from water stress, and fog collectors were presented as an innovative solution. However, the lack of public data generates uncertainty about their effectiveness. The island's residents are waiting for answers to know if public money has translated into real water.
The next plenary of the Cabildo could be the setting where this data is provided, if the governing group responds to the request from IxLG. For now, the ball is in the court of the island's governing team.
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