Miranda de Ebro rethinks its relationship with the river following an interview with Javier San Román

The exhibition Through the Ebro Basin, inaugurated last March 17 in Miranda de Ebro, continues to attract media attention. Among the pieces published in the days that followed, the interview with Javier San Román in El Correo. Miranda de Ebro edition stands out; its headline clearly sums up one of the underlying ideas running through this Centenary venue: “Floods will continue to happen; we must adapt and live with them.”.

Beyond the immediate news cycle, the interview reinforces a long-term reading of the relationship between Miranda de Ebro and the river. It does not present floods as an isolated anomaly, but as a historical reality of the territory, requiring planning, knowledge, memory and the capacity to adapt. This perspective connects directly with the approach the exhibition proposes in this city: an informative introduction to the Ebro basin, its hydraulic history and the challenges that continue to shape the present.

In this sense, the conversation published by El Correo extends into the public sphere some of the themes the exhibition leaves open: living with risk, the transformation of the territory, and the need to continue thinking about water not only in terms of emergency, but also prevention and management.

This line of reflection will also continue with the Centenary Meetings in Miranda de Ebro, scheduled for March 26, 2026, at 6:00 PM, in the Multipurpose Room 2 of the Casa de Cultura, under the title “Conversations around the Ebro basin: living with the river and harnessing its energy”. The session will include the presentations “Flood events in Miranda de Ebro: understanding them to live with them”, by José Adolfo Álvarez González, and “Hydroelectric power and the Ebro basin”, by Clemente Prieto Hernández.

In closing, the exhibition’s inauguration has also been covered by other media outlets. El Correo focused on the journey through one hundred years of the Ebro basin in Miranda; Europa Press highlighted the review of one hundred years of hydrological management; Gente Digital Burgos emphasized that historical dimension of the exhibition; and Diario de Burgos underscored the idea of “one hundred years of challenges”. Different angles on the same conclusion: the inauguration has opened a public conversation about the river, the territory and water management.

Header photo: courtesy of El Correo. Miranda de Ebro edition.