SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Feb. 15 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife, through the public company Balten, has awarded the contract for the maintenance and conservation of the island’s reuse and desalination systems for a value of 8,774,080 euros. The agreement will have a duration of 3 years, with the possibility of extension for a period of two years.
The island councilor for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Javier Parrilla, assured that this contract will guarantee the maintenance of the facilities and transport lines of the agricultural sector. “It is a milestone to be able to count after more than 30 years with a contract that includes the conduction of reclaimed water from Santa Cruz to Valle de San Lorenzo, since in recent years there have been several breakages,” he added.
According to Parrilla, improving the quality of agricultural water is to improve the productivity of crops, “for this reason, the line of work that we have proposed is to continue improving our infrastructures, establishing adequate maintenance to guarantee access to agricultural water quality”.
The contract, which has been awarded to the UTE Técnicas de Desalinización de Aguas SA (Tedagua) and Syocsa-Inarsa SA, will provide services to several vital facilities for Tenerife, such as the regeneration station for the tertiary treatment of purified water and the pumping station of reclaimed water, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife; the conveyance of reclaimed water from Santa Cruz to the south of the island; the reclaimed water desalination plant at the Valle de San Lorenzo hydraulic complex in Arona; the reclaimed water desalination plant in the Adeje-Arona Treatment System, and the white water desalination plant of the Isla Baja hydraulic complex, in Buenavista del Norte.
The councilor stressed that this service constitutes a system of great importance for the economic development of the island, “especially for the south, since a large part of its objective is the regeneration of water for agricultural irrigation”, and assured that all services of the contract “have been optimized from the perspective of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the 2030 Agenda, requiring an express commitment from the bidders and incorporating environmental criteria in a transversal manner”.
He recalled that this contract will provide continuity to the reclaimed water supply service for irrigation in the south of the island, which began operating 30 years ago, “and that, thanks to technological advances and accumulated experience, each time it provides a water of better quality for its final use, increasing the hydraulic resources of the area thanks to the reuse of water”.
The signing ceremony, which took place at the Balten headquarters, was attended by Javier Parrilla; the manager of Balten, Ana Sánchez Espadas, and the director of operation and maintenance of the UTE, Luis Miguel Arauzo Alemany.
