The Aqualia company applies state-of-the-art technology to capture, treat, control, manage, distribute and maintain the water supply and guarantee its health.
The 22,000 customers that Aqualia has in Adeje receive drinking water at their taps that has previously gone through a strict sanitary treatment and control process. Measure that is applied with the employment state-of-the-art techniques and technology in facilities that are at the forefront in the management of the integral water cycle. That is to say, the route that the water follows from the moment it is collected, the purification process, its distribution and the reincorporation of wastewater, once purified, to be returned to the environment without affecting the environment. The La Caleta desalination plant produces some 30,000 cubic meters of drinking water per day for human consumption, which it distributes through a 12-kilometer network that supplies coastal areas and subdivisions such as Playa Paraíso, Armeñime and El Galeón, among others.
A fundamental part of the management of a seawater desalination plant is the control of water quality. To this end, in addition to the more than 200 parameters analyzed on-site daily, more complete analyzes are carried out at Aqualia’s accredited laboratory, also located in the municipality of Adeje.
In this center, technological control scrutinizes the conditions of the water to the point that it is suitable for consumption before adding the salts and elements it requires. In addition, La Caleta stores water in a resource pond that guarantees supply to the population in cases of breakdowns without the need to restrict the service for its repair.
Aqualia Wave
Along with the La Caleta treatment plant, construction will begin in a few days on Aqualia Wave, an international research center that will be fully operational by the end of the year. It will occupy more than 3,000 square meters of surface area where a team of company researchers will work permanently. European scientists will also attend. Aqualia Wave will be a multidisciplinary center where its own technologies and those of international partners involved in the search for optimization of desalination processes, recovery of waste such as brines for the production of raw materials and the coupling of renewable energies to the process will be developed, scaled and validated. of water treatment.
Aqualia Lab
At the headquarters of Entemanser, a company integrated into Aqualia, in Adeje – where user service is provided – there is also the laboratory in which highly qualified personnel, as recognized by specialized accreditations, analyze drinking water. For this, it has state-of-the-art technology. In fact, a new team will be installed tomorrow. The objective is to control and guarantee the excellent state of drinking water.
Aqualia live
It is an intelligent system that unifies the entire management of the integral water cycle around a platform with interconnected modules for a complete and efficient service. The control is exhaustive and detailed with instant information on the entire network and consumption. Use artificial intelligence and big data to improve efficiency. The electronic meters, implemented in Adeje by the City Council, contribute to this.
Fran Blanco leads the Aqualia team in Canary Islands, as delegate of the company in the Archipelago. A group in which yesterday Pedro Gómez, head of production at Tenerife Oeste and head of the Adeje service, he led an information session on the work carried out by the company in the municipality and on the island. In addition, his counterpart in Tenerife East, Rafael Castillo; Braulio Domínguez, from Tenerife North and Las Palmas; Francisco García, head of the La Caleta desalination plant; Juan Arévalo, head of R+D+i projects; Atasara Hernández and Beatriz García, from the Laboratory; Pedro Navas, head of customer management for the Canary Islands; Juan Melián, technical director of the Canary Islands and Antonio García Lara, in purification and desalination.