The Council of Tenerifethrough the Municipal Cooperation and Housing area, invests more than one million euros in improving the drinking water supply network of the northern municipality of El Tanque, where more than 2,800 people reside. The project has a global budget of almost 1.2 million euros, of which the tanker City Council will contribute 10% of the total, about 117,000 euros.
The Councilor for Municipal Cooperation and Housing of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Zebenzuí Chinea, details that “the works planned in El Tanque are still included in the Municipal Cooperation Plan 2018-2021, and their main objective is to renew the drinking water supply infrastructures and thus help the council to provide an adequate and quality service to the residents.
In the last Island Government Council, the attribution to the El Tanque City Council of the management of these works has been approved, as confirmed by Zebenzuí Chinea, who added that “the Cabildo is collaborating with the municipal Corporation to promote this action and provide solutions to the deficiencies that the population has been suffering for years in the provision of this basic service.
“For the execution of the works, an item of 1,173,600 euros has been planned, of which the Cabildo will finance 90% (1,056,240 euros), and the city council, the remaining 10%,” insisted the counselor. In addition, “the home meter park will be renovated, while various improvement actions will be carried out both in the municipal supply network and in the drinking water accumulation tanks.”
The mayoress of El Tanque, the socialist Esther Morales, assured that the town council has requested the Cabildo de Tenerife “the attribution of powers of the Insular Municipal Cooperation Plan to solve this structural problem that affects the domestic drinking water supply service . Therefore, it is an extremely ambitious initiative that aims to improve hydraulic performance, reduce the budget deficit that the service has historically dragged on and modernize strategic facilities to guarantee supply to the entire population with the maximum sanitary and quality guarantees. .
Chinea recalled that “we are already working on new projects for works and services, through the Insular Plan for Municipal Cooperation 2022-2025, to continue collaborating directly with all the municipalities of the island in works of vital importance for the population” . Work is also being done on another line of cooperation from the Cabildo with municipalities with less than 20,000 inhabitants, through the Insular Program of Priority Works, “related to the operation of public services under municipal jurisdiction.”