Today we had an interview with the responsible person from the office of the planning institute of the municipality of San Bartolomé. We found out that the use of water is arranged by the Law of the use of water, which requires that the water used for gardens and golf surfaces has to be the purified water. 90 % of the purified water is used for it, and the rest ends up in the sea.
The most interesting fact is that the whole economy is actually based on the petrol. Because the 98 % of the energy they get from thermal power plant and the 2 % from wind power plants. According to her, they don’t have any alternative plan, the only innovations in the system are more wind power plants, but we know that there is an important proyect with the reservoir of Chira. Also they won’t decrease the dependency of the prices of petrol.
About the touristic dates she told us that there is a problem with the three administrations that control the competences in tourism: Canary Government, Patronato and the city hall of the different tourist points. In many cases there is a lack of understanding between these three organs and because of this many mistakes in the public planning can be and were made.
Finally she explained the changes in the demand of the tourism: in about 2000 we could divide the offer of accommodation in about 70% of extrahotels offer and 30% of hotels. Nowadays, these numbers are more equilibrated because an important share of touristic apartments were being sold and now more than 16000 citizens live there. It causes a big problem because there was no previous planning that can resolve things like parking places, garbage and the problem of the town-planning indiscipline. This final problem means that many people who bought touristic apartments are not prepared to be used like a primary housing and they try to increase the surface making illegal works that damage the landscape.
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