With a meteorological situation where rainfall has barely reached 27% of the forecast, the water emergency becomes an urgent reality in Tenerife. In this context, Loro Parque, one of the companies mentioned by the Insular Water Council in its published measures to tackle this problem, has stated through its legal representative Jaime Rodríguez Cíe, that it will support the measures by offering its capacity to generate fresh water for the Canary community: “Loro Parque will, as always, be ready to put its capacity at the service of the needs of our population, according to what the Insular Water Council determines.”
The measures referred to by the spokesperson were published this week by the Council aimed at alleviating and addressing the serious situation that has already resulted in restrictions in several municipalities of Tenerife and was made public for public information, following the necessary protocols in these cases.
One of the 70 proposals
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One of the 70 measures published refers to companies like Loro Parque, requesting them to “make available the idle capacity” of their plants “for allocation by the Insular Water Council to deficit uses”. This would translate, in practice, to using part of Loro Parque’s desalination capacity to generate fresh water for public use.
Loro Parque is one of the accredited companies in terms of sustainability, demonstrating a clear commitment to the use of both hydraulic and energy resources. Since 2010, it has been implementing a water self-sufficiency policy, based on the desalination of seawater. This extraction is carried out based on a public authorization that limits and controls the number of liters obtained from the ocean and treated at Loro Parque’s facilities. The generated water covers the park’s self-consumption for both its facilities and human use.
Loro Parque main entrance. / E. D.
Jaime Rodríguez explains that Loro Parque’s commitment to the Canary community “remains firm” and that “the group sees the measures as another opportunity to put its capacity at the service of their needs”. One of the aspects that need to be addressed, according to Rodríguez Cíe, is that of the necessary infrastructure to address this water supply from Loro Parque to the public network.
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A Coordination Meeting
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“We have already requested a meeting with the members of the Insular Water Council to find solutions to this situation and determine how to carry it out and contribute our help to the citizens,” Rodríguez stated. In this regard, Loro Parque has an osmosis desalination plant that converts seawater into useful water for human use. The group’s legal representative emphasized Loro Parque’s real commitment to Tenerife, which has been evident in all situations where their collaboration has been needed, such as in the fires last year, where they provided assistance through logistical and human resource support, or their contributions to reforestation through donations to the plans developed for that purpose.
