Editing Castilla–La Mancha (section)

=== Regionhood ===
Under the auspices of the [[Spanish Constitution|1978 Constitution]], a [[decree-law]] was issued on 15 November 1978,<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://hedatuz.euskomedia.org/4506/1/28183201.pdf|title=Religión e identidad en Castilla-La Mancha|last=Lucas Picazo|first=Miguel|year=2006|journal=Zainak|pages=183–185}}{{Dead link|date=April 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> establishing the conditions of the "pre-autonomous regime" of the "Castilian-Manchegan region". A joint assembly of legislators and [[Provincial deputation (Spain)|provincial deputies]] of the provinces of Albacete, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Guadalajara, Toledo was established in [[Manzanares, Ciudad Real|Manzanares]] in 1981 to draft the early sketch of the regional statute.<ref>{{Cite book|publisher=ACMS|location=Toledo|chapter-url=https://acmspublicaciones.revistabarataria.es/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Almagro.art_.40.2007.Sanchez.641_656.pdf|page=648|chapter=La formación de la identidad regional castellanomanchega a través de las políticas públicas realizadas por la administración de la Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha|first1=Francisco|last1=Sánchez Rodríguez|first2=Jesús|last2=Punzón Moraleda|year=2007|title=Castilla-La Mancha: 25 años de autonomía}}</ref> On 17 June 1982, the [[Congress of Deputies]] approved the final text of the regional statute (an [[organic law]]), which was later published on 16 August 1982, giving birth to the [[autonomous community]] of "Castilla-La Mancha".{{Sfn|Sánchez Rodríguez|Punzón Moraleda|2007|p=648}}{{Refn|group=n.|A historical precedent for the denomination of Castilla-La Mancha, unbeknownst to the creators of the autonomous community, is the denomination of "Castilla-Mancha" for a region with capital in Toledo featured in a 1842 proposal of territorial organization of Spain devised by Federal Republicanist author [[Wenceslao Ayguals de Izco]].<ref>{{Cite book|isbn=84-95410-41-9|first1=Isidro|last1=Sánchez|first2=Rafael|last2=Villena|title=Testigo de lo pasado. Castilla-La Mancha en sus documentos (1785-2005)|location=Tomelloso|publisher=Ediciones Soubriet|year=2005|url=https://ceclmdigital.uclm.es/details.vm?q=id:0002509272&lang=en&view=libros|pages=7–8}}</ref>}} The constituent process of the autonomous community was sealed with the [[1983 Castilian-Manchegan regional election|election of the first regional legislature in May 1983]] and the ensuing investiture of [[José Bono]] as regional president.{{Sfn|Lucas Picazo|2006|p=185}} By December 1983 still less than half of citizens actually knew the autonomous community they belonged to.{{Sfn|Lucas Picazo|2006|p=185}}

Since its opening in 1979 the [[Tagus-Segura Water Transfer]] has caused a severe social-economic impact on the region, with the water resources available in the Tagus headwaters decreasing by about a 47.5% after 1980.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Challenges and Proposals for Socio-Ecological Sustainability of the Tagus–Segura Aqueduct (Spain)|first1=Álvaro-Francisco|last1=Morote|first2=Jorge|last2=Olcina|first3=Antonio-Manuel|last3=Rico|journal=Sustainability|year=2017|volume=9|issue=2058|doi=10.3390/su9112058|s2cid=158150891|doi-access=free|hdl=10045/71131|hdl-access=free}}</ref>