La gestión del agua depurada y la conservación del territorio y la biodiversidad. El caso de las lagunas de Campotejar y las Moreras en la Región de Murcia (SE España)

Some abandoned sewage lagoons have become agricultural reservoirs, easing in some cases transformation into wetlands in which the presence of endangered aquatic birds has been detected. By way of the European Union Project LIFE09/NAT/000516 landscape adaption and environmental improvement in two of these lagoons (Lagunas de Campotejar y Lagunas de las Moreras) with the objective of transforming them into wetlands of international importance (Ramsar Convention). The results demonstrate these “lagoons” can fulfil on the one hand a social and economic role by acting as reservoirs for irrigation strengthen nature tourism and environmental education. And on the other hand an ecological role as freshwater or brackish wetlands where habitats of great ecological interest can develop.