SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Feb. 16 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Minister of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, announced this Wednesday that the expansion works of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife district treatment plant, which serves more than 500,000 inhabitants and has a budget of 20 million euros, They will be completed after the summer of 2023.
In a press conference accompanied by the president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, to publicize the ‘Sustainable Energy Strategy’, he pointed out that this project is “fundamental” because it is going to double the water treatment capacity and free up resources reused for other uses.
He has said that the workers are 30% complete and from the company “they are convinced” that they will follow the calendar.
Ribera has also highlighted that in 2020, an agreement was signed, through the State Society Acuaes, with the Cabildo and the Tenerife Island Water Council, for an amount of 170 million euros, to improve the sanitation and purification of the counties of Arona Este-San Miguel, Tenerife Oeste, Acentejo, Granadilla and Valle de la Orotava.
Also in July 2021, Acuaes signed another agreement for 27 million with the Lanzarote Water Consortium to carry out actions to improve sanitation, purification and expansion of the Arrecife outfall, and the expansion and improvement of the Tías WWTP.
Regarding the dismantling of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Refinery, he has said that it will give the city a “different profile” after an agreement with the Cepsa company that has been “complex” but at the same time a “gain” for the capital.
He has commented that from now on “doing it well is essential” and from the central government they will support whatever is required of them but being clear about “respect” for the powers of each institution.
