SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct. 14 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Ministry of Ecological Transition, Fight against Climate Change and Territorial Planning of the Government of the Canary Islands works to accelerate the deadlines for the start-up of the two portable desalination plants that are already being installed in the Puerto Naos area and that intend to guarantee maintenance and the survival of plantations in the area affected by the volcano.
These two portable desalination plants will be joined by the tanker ‘Tomasso S’, granted by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge and which is already anchored in the port area of Tazacorte.
The general director of Waters of the Government of the Canary Islands, Víctor Navarro, visited these facilities on Thursday together with the president of the Cabildo de La Palma, Mariano Hernández Zapata; the Government delegate in the Canary Islands, Anselmo Pestana, and the mayor of Tazacorte, Juan Miguel Rodríguez.
Víctor Navarro wanted to highlight the involvement of the Ministry with the inhabitants of La Palma and the immediacy with which it has worked so that this boat has been able to travel from Lisbon to the island in the shortest possible time, with all the complexity involved in enabling a vessel of these characteristics with a capacity of 7,500 m3.
For his part, the Minister of Ecological Transition, Fight against Climate Change and Territorial Planning, José Antonio Valbuena, also wanted to congratulate the central government for this management and underline the great work that the companies are developing and the operation of more than 40 workers that intervene in the desalination plant area so that these infrastructures, together with the tanker, come into operation in the next few days, “despite the obvious complications involved in working with heavy machinery a few kilometers from an erupting volcano.”
Finally, Navarro also wanted to underline the importance of the inter-administrative collaboration that has existed since the beginning of the eruption to provide an adequate and humane response to all the people and productive sectors affected by this phenomenon.
