The Minister of Agriculture and Water, Antonio Cerdá, Totana today presented the draft installation of tertiary treatment of sewage in the municipality, "incorporates the latest technologies for cleaner water and better quality for reuse," said Cerdá.
The project has an investment of 2.4 million euros, financed by Community funds and the Cohesion Fund of the European Union.
The owner of Agriculture and Water presented the Mayor of Totana, José Martínez Andreo, the expansion project with which to get, he said, "a rigorous advanced treatment and water purification," and recalled that "in the Region of Murcia are applying a higher level than the EU states in this matter. "
This facility, said, "will get 6,000 cubic meters of water per day from the highest quality, suitable for Totana irrigators can use in agriculture."
He said "Murcia has dawned with the reuse of all of its water, which exceeds 100 cubic hectometres year and added that" these resources help us complete what we need to support agriculture. "
Responsible for Agriculture said that the World Water Forum held in Istanbul last week, "Murcia took the message of the maximum water efficiency," and recalled that "good management that we use in our legitimacy to reclaim water from other basins with leftovers. "
"It is absolutely necessary to maintain the Tajo-Segura, an infrastructure that works and recover the Ebro transfer," added the director.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Water is doing well in this county other actions, such as supply in Las Viñas, sanitation works in the hamlet of Lebor, and the proposed expansion to 9,000 cubic meters per day of the current purification Totana.
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