SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 5 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife, through the public company Balten, has guaranteed this Tuesday the supply for agricultural irrigation, through reclaimed water, in sufficient quantity and quality to face the summer.
The island councilor for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Javier Parrilla, points out in a note that the storage level of regenerated water in the south of the island reaches 96 percent, which confirms the need and effectiveness of betting on it .
“Where reclaimed water intervenes, with additional contributions of desalinated water, there is a greater quantity and quality of stored and supplied water,” says Parrilla.
According to the results of the Balten technical reports, the global level of storage in the south, which stands at 82 percent (including the Trevejos reservoir in Vilaflor), is adequate to face the summer, “which is the result of the commitment and the work of the current government group”, continues the minister.
In line with the above, Parrilla recalls that, in 2020, for example, “during the toughest months of the pandemic”, the Cabildo promoted the connection between the conduction of the Niágara and Tágara galleries with the Trevejos raft, “moving with high-quality water, previously directed to coastal areas, which is replaced by desalinated water from the Fonsalía desalination plant”.
With regard to the northeast region of the island, the manager of Balten, Ana Sánchez Espadas, assures that “intense work has been done to make possible a change of model similar to that of the south, but in this case supported by the deployment of the low-lying reclaimed water”.
In this way, reclaimed water will be pumped from the Northeast Tenerife Wastewater Treatment and Regeneration Station (EDRAR), located in Valle Guerra, to the Valle Molina reservoir, in Tegueste, which will allow the entire Tejina basin to be irrigated. Tegueste and Valle de Guerra, with excellent quality water.
The northern slope, for its part, continues to increase its storage levels and goes from 55 to 61 percent (225,355 more cubic meters).
“And all this despite the fact that the Barranco de Benijos pond, in La Orotava, is being emptied for re-waterproofing,” the councilor points out.
Parrilla also highlights the solvency of the technical work on the ‘Isla Baja’, which has increased its level of stored water by 115,133 cubic meters (the equivalent of 46 Olympic swimming pools), thanks to the purchase of desalinated seawater from the desalination plant of The Nun.
“It is demonstrated, in short, that the strategy established by the Cabildo de Tenerife to replace water at low levels with reclaimed or desalinated water bears fruit, with greater global energy efficiency, as the gallery waters are located at a higher level in the middle All this, added to the incorporation of desalinated waters at medium elevation, is generating stability and quality in the supplies of the different basins of Tenerife”, concludes the counselor.
