Twenty-five members of the ARA Premium Club They participated in the guided tour of the Urgell Canal last Saturday, a particularly cold and clear day. The tour included a visit to the museum, which explains the history of this canal in a very educational way. essential hydraulic infrastructure in the countryLocated in Mollerussa, the tour included two key points along the canal: the extraordinary iron bridge of Agramunt and the source of the Urgell Canal in Ponts, where the weir with a fishpond facilitates the intake of water from the Segre River into the canal. "This weir, which is over a hundred years old, is a very well-designed structure," remarked Eloi Tarrés, one of the oldest members of the Premium Club—he has been a member since its inception—who thoroughly enjoyed the activity. Participants were able to see all the now-obsolete machinery: large iron wheels that were manually turned to open and close the sluice gates and regulate the flow of water. Now everything works automatically.

Opera in the veins. This is the formula designed to create culture. Not only water culture (so necessary today), but also culture about the Urgell Canal, a structure that has shaped much of the Lleida district and represents not only a historical past of superhuman efforts to bring water to dry land, but also a future that necessarily requires its modernization.

The administrative court number 1 of Lleida has condemned the General Community of Irrigators of the Urgell Canals to compensate a farmer from Almadraba de Seana who was unable to irrigate his corn fields due to the closure of the canal in 2023 due to drought. The farmer sued the Irrigation Community, which refused to compensate him, arguing that he had already received aid from the Generalitat from the drought decree.