The Island Water Council of Tenerife (Ciatf) announces the construction of a dasalination plant in the Güímar Valley. To do this, he reports that he is working on drafting a project to install said infrastructure in the industrial estate. The desalination plant will have the capacity to reach 14,000 cubic meters of production per day, with the possibility of reaching 21,000 cubic meters.
“The drafting of this project began last summer and it will be completed in the first quarter of 2023”, indicated the Councilor for Sustainable Development and the Fight Against Climate Change of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Javier Rodriguez Medina, who added that “we are taking another step to relieve the water stress in the region, where other measures have already been implemented, such as the urban water treatment plant and that of the industrial estate itself, to solve a chaotic situation in terms of water treatment throughout the area.”
The writing of this project has a cost that will exceed €200,000. The counselor explained that it will include the drive to the headwater tank (located at an elevation of 175 meters above sea level) as well as the headwater tank itself, which is running the one corresponding to the first phase and which may house 7,000 cubic meters.
The installation of this infrastructure will make it possible to supply the central region of the Southeast with desalinated water, at a good price and of good quality, as is currently produced in other places on the Island, citing the case of Granadilla de Abona.
Javier Rodríguez says that “one more step is being taken to free the region from the water stress it suffers”
Among the solutions cited by Rodríguez Medina for the serious problem of residual water and discharges into the sea in the Güímar Valley, he cited the industrial treatment plant, commissioned for testing on March 17. That day, the industrial wastewater from the estate was connected to the Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant (Edari), “once the biological treatment process has started, the penultimate step before the station works one hundred percent with all purification guarantees. The prolonged dumping of wastewater into the sea, which was carried out without authorization for a period, led to millions in fines imposed by the European Union.
But the region has yet to complete the official start-up of the urban water treatment plant. When finished, it will be able to produce 7,000 cubic meters of reclaimed water per day. It will collect and treat wastewater from the South Coast of Candelaria, El Carretón, the urban centers of Güímar and Arafo, Malpaís de Güímar, the North Coast of Candelaria and Puertito de Güímar.
Both projects represent an investment of 20 million euros, to which must be added the cost of the desalination plant that the Cabildo is now announcing.
