Overview

• Valencian, Murcian and Andalusian officials met in Alicante to formalize a joint "green defense axis" against proposed changes to Tajo–Segura operating rules.
• Murcia formally asked the Ministry for the Ecological Transition to withdraw the draft modification, arguing the transfer is not the cause of the Tajo’s environmental problems.
• Regional leaders warn the new framework would sharply cut historic transfers, with some scenarios reducing large releases by up to 60% or halving average annual volumes.
• Coverage diverges on the status and authorship of a technical dossier cited by the regions, with one report describing a finished University of Alicante study and another noting it is a draft not authored by the university.
• The dispute stems from the 2023 Tajo basin plan that fixed a minimum ecological flow of 8.65 m3/s, and key legal appeals to the Supreme Court seeking to overturn those flows remain pending.