The Spanish congress has approved the reform of the national hydrological plan (PHN), which includes the formal scrapping of the controversial Ebro transfer - by 188 votes to 135 - of the right-wing Popular Party, which drew up the Plan when in power. The PSOE socialists said they would scrap the transfer and draw up an alternative desalination-based Program AGUA shortly after winning elections just over a year ago. In the debate, PP's Maria Angels Ramon-Llin demonstrated that her party's position was unchanged. "We want to return to the initial PHN which can evidently be modified in many points, but we want to return to that PHN." PSOE's Montserrat Coldeforns said the revised law "marks the slow but sure path towards a new water policy, which will give solutions to today's problems without endangering tomorrow's solutions."
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