IEA Foundation participates in the '1St DANA Forum in the Eastern Spain'
Due to the floods, that the Region of Murcia suffered last autumn, the '1st DANA Forum in the Spanish East' was held. It was organized by the Ministry of Development and Infrastructure of Murcia and celebrated last Tuesday, January 21. About thirty experts, from different fields, could analyse this meteorological phenomenon to find solutions that would minimize its effects, as well as promoting measures against floods. Among these experts, is to be remarked the collaboration of the IEA Foundation through its director Sr Francisco Cabezas Calvo Rubio, who moderated the first agenda item entitled “Dana Phenomenon. Are we facing an extraordinary phenomenon? Do we have the regulations for this?”
The event was inaugurated by the Minister of Development and Infrastructure of the Region of Murcia, Sr José Ramón Díez de Revenga, in which he appealed to the collaboration between all administrations such as the Ministry of Water, Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Environment of the Region of Murcia, whose director-general Sr Sebastián Delgado Amaro stating that "we have to advance in the specific regulations of flood risk management to be really effective".
Likewise, Sr Jesús García, head of the Planning Office of the Segura River Basin Authorities, has indicated on social networks: "Once the urgent works of the Dana of 2019 have been undertaken, it is time to review the plans underway and look for actions not executed because they were on a second level, and now we will execute them as long as there are funds for it ”.
