The Cabildo, through the public company Balsas de Tenerife (Balten), has awarded the contract for the maintenance and conservation of the island’s reuse and desalination systems for a value of 8,774,080 euros. The agreement will have a duration of three years, with the possibility of extension for another two more.
The contract has been awarded to the UTE Técnicas de Desalination de Aguas SA (Tedagua) and Syocsa-Inarsa SA. It will serve “several vital facilities for Tenerife,” says the island councilor for the primary sector, Javier Parrilla. Among them are the station for the tertiary treatment of purified water and the pumping of reclaimed water, in Santa Cruz, or the reclaimed water transport pipeline from the capital to the south. Also the reclaimed water desalination plant at the Valle de San Lorenzo hydraulic complex, in Arona; the reclaimed water desalination plant in the Adeje-Arona Treatment System; and the white water desalination station of the Isla Baja hydraulic complex, in Buenavista del Norte,
Parrilla, Island Councilor for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Javier Parrilla, assures that this contract will guarantee the maintenance of the facilities and transport lines of the agricultural sector. “It is a milestone – he points out – to be able to count after more than 30 years with a contract that includes the conduction of reclaimed water from Santa Cruz to Valle de San Lorenzo”. More so if you take into account that in recent years there have been several breakages.
In Parrilla’s opinion, improving the quality of agricultural water means improving crop productivity. From there, he underlines, “the line of work that we have proposed: continue improving our infrastructures”, as well as establishing “adequate maintenance to guarantee access to quality agricultural water”, says the counselor.
Parrilla emphasizes that this service constitutes a system of great importance for the economic development of the island, “especially for the south, since a large part of its objective is the regeneration of water for agricultural irrigation,” he concludes.
