Balance económico del trasvase Tajo-Segura

Abstract

The main aims of this paper are the study of the degree of correspondence of the Tajo-Segura hydraulic transfer (TST) to the general criteria that are in the base of the legislation about water transfers, the analysis of tax policy and the economic imbalance of the TST management between 1979 and 1995. The exploitation model of TST meant a breakdown in the financing system of hydraulic works by the State. The aim was the customers to cover investments and ordinary expenses in a search for economic autonomy. At the same time one of the goals was to produce enough surpluses to economically compensate the institution that owned the transferred water originally. The exploitation of TST and its economic results have been conditioned by the planning of the works and by the underemployment that the built facilities have suffered, this factors leading to the rise of the price of transferred water and the questioning of TST economic results.