The Ministry of Water, Agriculture and Environment, through the Bank of Sanitation and Wastewater Treatment of Murcia (Esamur) will invest 350,000 euros to improve the tertiary system of industrial water treatment plant (WWTP) of Bidding for the Community of Irrigators of the municipality can directly use 163,000 cubic meters of treated water.
Esamur manager, Jesus Artero, met this week with the mayor of Pliego, Ramona Jimenez and representatives of the Community Irrigation Project to inform.
With the planned works quality of treated water, which is offered free of charge to irrigators will be improved.
The treated water quality, suitable for crop irrigation and is well above what is required by EU directives.
The manager also informed Esamur irrigators and municipal representatives is in talks with representatives of the Segura basin, to expedite as far as possible, the award irrigators are hoping to have that wealth.
This initiative responds to the commitments adopted by the Council with irrigators to meet their demands in order to increase the direct use of treated water from the sewage treatment plant in the region 90, which produce a flow of 104 cubic hectometres a year, the that 50 percent, about 52 cubic hectometres, whether they are directly used by irrigators in 32 municipalities through concessions.
Source: CARM