Santa Cruz de Tenerife 21. (Press Europa) –
The president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Rosa Dávila, along with the Minister of Natural Environment, Sustainability, Security, and Emergencies, Blanca Pérez, visited the emergency operations taking place in the Los Lances area, located in the municipality of Santa Úrsula, on Monday. This initiative aims to secure the water supply for the local populace.
Dávila and Pérez were joined by deputy mayor, José Manuel Amador, along with technicians from the Insular Council of Aguas de Tenerife.
Rosa Dávila remarked that this is a “very significant” endeavour for the municipality of Santa Úrsula, aimed at assuring water accessibility for residents and enhancing capacity during emergencies.
“As demonstrated during the fire in August 2023, there was considerable vulnerability in the water supply from the channel that serves Aguamansa’s 15,000 residents,” she stated.
Blanca Pérez highlighted that “this project is part of a broader series of actions being undertaken across the northern part of Tenerife to ensure an adequate supply for all municipalities and maintain water quality.”
In her view, “these are essential works that will prevent any shortage in the event of incidents affecting the Aguamansa Canal.”
José Manuel Amador noted that this project was necessitated to address the water supply issues highlighted during the 2023 fire.
“We faced challenges concerning supply due to breaks within the Aguamansa Canal, and with this initiative, we will ensure that residents of the municipality have guaranteed access to water. Furthermore, we have succeeded in enhancing water quality, particularly by improving the mixture of water from the northern channel with that from the Aguamansa Canal, resulting in significantly better quality,” he explained.
The initiative involves the establishment of a pumping station capable of transferring up to 80,000 litres of water per hour from the Northern Canal to the municipal reservoirs of Vieja and Maridíaz.
The main station will elevate water from the reservoirs to the ancient stone deposits, overcoming a gradient of 160 metres. Additionally, there will be a smaller secondary station that will boost another 12,000 litres per hour to higher altitude areas, with a further gradient of 280 metres.
