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5 January 2019 2.00 h

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144 million euros to be spent on water sanitation over five years

The Ter­ri­tory and Sus­tain­abil­ity De­part­ment and the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Area of Barcelona (AMB) yes­ter­day an­nounced plans to spend 144 mil­lion euros on water san­i­ta­tion over the next five years, a fig­ure that is ten times that of the pre­vi­ous plan.

Ter­ri­tory and sus­tain­abil­ity min­is­ter, Damià Cal­vet, who pre­sented the agree­ment along­side the AMB vice pres­i­dent, Eloi Badia, in­sisted that “it is very sig­nif­i­cant, not only due to the amount, but be­cause the in­vest­ment will af­fect an asset and es­sen­tial re­source for the pop­u­la­tion.”

The funds will come from the water levies man­aged by the Cata­lan Water Agency (ACA), an en­vi­ron­men­tal tax that was “a first” in Spain when it was in­tro­duced back in 1983.

Spend­ing will go to two main areas: some 78 mil­lion euros to­wards main­te­nance and im­prove­ment, with the aim, ac­cord­ing to Cal­vet, of “con­tin­u­ing with the good func­tion­ing of ex­ist­ing treat­ment plants”, with the re­main­ing 66 mil­lion euros to be spend on new in­vest­ment.

Badia de­tailed some of these new in­vest­ments, such as up­dat­ing the tech­nol­ogy used in treat­ment plants, com­plet­ing con­nec­tions in the metro area’s san­i­ta­tion net­work, and work­ing on the odour com­ing from the Fòrum, Vilade­cans and Gavà treat­ment plants.

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