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Northwest municipalities lose between 32 and 65% of water in their networks

October 25, 2021
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Northwest municipalities lose between 32 and 65% of water in their networks

«The problem is in the pipes that make the water escape through their fingers. The solution is not to put more water in systems that lose most of it, “he warns. Leaks waste 65% of the water in El Tanque and San Juan de la Rambla, 56% in La Guancha, 55% in Los Silos, 38% in Buenavista and 32% in Garachico. Some yields in the supply networks that, in Rodríguez’s opinion, “are really poor, since we are talking about municipalities that lose two out of every three liters of water.”

“They buy water from the owners of wells and galleries, with public resources, to later lose most of it in supply networks that are totally inefficient”Rodríguez censors, who adds that the Tenerife Island Water Council “is aware of this problem and is at the disposal of the municipalities to offer technical advice and also to invest and collaborate.”

“Some of the municipalities in the northwest of Tenerife have a daily supply of around 500 liters per inhabitant. And that does not mean that each neighbor has an Olympic-size swimming pool in their house, but that water is lost in the transport system, so it does not make sense that in a climate emergency context we ask to invest in obtaining more water when these resources they exist and, simply, we are being inefficient in the transport ”, he warns.

Javier Rodríguez remarks that “despite being a purely municipal competition, from the Cabildo de Tenerife we ​​have awarded a contract of 2.1 million euros to place meters and flow meters in all the incoming and outgoing warehouses of these towns. There are about a hundred accountants that will allow us to know where the losses are occurring to notify the municipalities so that they take the appropriate measures as soon as possible.

According to Rodríguez, one of the keys to this serious problem is that these municipalities “continue to manage the network with the plumber’s culture and have not invested in engineering, remote control or remote control.” Six of the seven municipalities in the Northwest share, in addition to a high percentage of water losses in their network, a direct management system. The insular councilor for Sustainable Development understands that this management system is part of the problem, since in localities with networks in the hands of specialized companies that percentage of losses “is much lower.” In Puerto de la Cruz, for example, it is 16%, and in La Laguna it is around 14%.

  • THE NUMBERS

    65% El Tanque and SJ de la Rambla

    The northern municipalities of El Tanque and San Juan de la Rambla suffer losses in their drinking water networks of around 65%. They lose 65 out of every 100 liters they buy.

    56% La Guancha

    With 56% losses in the network, the town of La Guancha is one of the four in the Northwest that loses more than half of the water that enters its supply network.

    55% Los Silos

    The Silense case, with 55% of water lost, is similar to that of La Guancha, but contrasts sharply with the neighboring towns of Garachico and Buenavista, which lose 32 and 38%.

    38% Buenavista del Norte

    Buenavista del Norte currently loses 38% of the water that enters its supply network, more than double what the municipality of Puerto de la Cruz loses, for example.

    32% Garachico

    The Garachico City Council is the one that suffers the least losses in the region of Isla Baja. It has improved remarkably, since years ago it suffered losses of 68%.

    14-16% La Laguna and Puerto de la Cruz

    Municipalities such as La Laguna and Puerto de la Cruz, with the management entrusted to specialized companies, present loss levels of 14 and 16%, respectively.



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