Climate change and Environment and sustainability / Sofía Lazcano /
Spain: The High Court of Justice of Galicia strengthens the protection of fundamental rights against environmental degradation
The High Court of Justice of Galicia orders the Xunta and the Hydrographic Confederation of the Miño-Sil to adopt urgent measures against the pollution of the As Conchas reservoir.
By judgment 313/2025, of 11 July (appeal 4019/2025), the Second Section of the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the High Court of Justice of Galicia has declared that the fundamental rights of the residents of As Conchas (Orense) to life and to property, in relation to the right to the enjoyment of water and of an environment that is healthy and suitable to people’s needs, have been violated, given the inaction of the Xunta de Galicia and the Hydrographic Confederation of the Miño-Sil in the face of the well-known environmental degradation of the reservoir and its surroundings deriving from the intense livestock load borne.
