SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 4 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Cabildo de La Gomera has started this Friday the installation works of the desalination plant in the Playa de Santiago region, an infrastructure that will be capable of injecting up to three thousand cubic meters of water per day into the network, which may be made available to the head deposits of the six municipalities and, especially, of the upper area of Alajeró.
This was explained by the insular president, Casimiro Curbelo, during the presentation ceremony in which he detailed the investment of 6.7 million euros, which will be used to provide the infrastructure itself, the treatment, storage and re-pumping tanks, in addition to the necessary acoustic insulation and waste management measures. “It is a performance of public interest, not only for this area of the island, but also for the island as a whole,” he remarked.
In addition, he recalled that the commitment to the desalination model stems from the declaration of a water emergency, after the drought that has been taking place and the decline in the levels of wells and surveys, whose daily accumulations only exceed one thousand cubic meters. “This is the ideal way to guarantee water needs in the domestic, industrial and irrigation fields, since the current pumping network that La Gomera has allows to articulate this reality”, he specified.
He placed special emphasis on the usefulness of the irrigation infrastructure in Alajeró, since the current network allows part of the available water to be poured into the Acanabre dam and meet the needs of farmers in the area. “We are not only talking about consumption for homes, but also to be able to boost the primary sector in areas where rainfall is scarce and there are currently difficulties in having this resource available,” he added.
For his part, the mayor of Alajeró, Manuel Ramón Plasencia, pointed out the relevance of this infrastructure for the entire region by increasing the capacity of water resources. In this sense, he stressed the commitment of the local council to cooperate with the action and its implementation.
Along with the Playa de Santiago desalination plant, another is being built in San Sebastián de La Gomera, and a third is planned in Valle Gran Rey. In the short term, six thousand cubic meters of water per day will be available, which will be added to other measures of immediate application to mitigate the effects of the reduction of water reserves, such as the execution of new actions to detect losses in the network. and its repair; recovery of springs or measures for irrigation efficiency.
