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The PP plan talks of ‘priority investments’ for sanitation, supply, and flood control, as well as ‘guaranteeing’ water needed for irrigation.
The proposal also refers to a plan to modernise the country’s infrastructures and to use resources to minimize flood and drought risks.
Over flooding the manifesto mentions the ‘prioritisation of restoring riverbeds, especially urban ones, which allow increasing the protection of people, property and the environment’.
ALICANTE is set to plant a swathe of new trees to help cool the city down.
The green areas are the brainchild of mayor Luis who wants to calm traffic in the Low Emission Zone (LEZ) .
The works on the Marva-Gadea axis are taking place until the end of the year, while works on the Paseo de los Martires de la Libertad will go on until September 4th.
Barcala also emphasised that trees that had been removed, including along Avenida de Jijona, were not gone for good but part of a tree replacement program.
“We are removing trees and replacing them with younger specimens. In fact, the 163 existing will be replaced by over 200.”