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The Minister of Agriculture and Water, Antonio Cerdá, and the mayor of Archena, Marcos Manuel Sanchez, today inaugurated the system of tertiary treatment of sewage in the municipality that extends the process of purification and water reuse.
The expansion represents an investment of 2.5 million euros, financed by the Cohesion Fund of the European Union and regional government equity.
The plant is designed to reuse three hectometres of water per year "of high quality."
Cerdá stressed "the effort in the development, optimization and management of water we are doing from the regional government."
He stressed that the municipalities in the region are equipped with sewage treatment plants "that use the latest technologies and have a high capacity for treatment."
"This has been our intention from the start of the 2001 General Plan of drainage and water treatment," said the Minister of Agriculture and Water.
He indicated that this treatment system allows us to have "a completely water clean and free of any bacterial pathogen, which is what causes us to be on the podium of excellence for water reuse," added the director Murcia .
The head of Water noted that "other regions are asking for assistance in this matter."
Region debug all of its waters, with over 100 hectometres of water per year.
Treatment plants in the region are governed by the technical criteria of the Code of California, "the strictest in this area," said Cerda.
Murcia eliminates 97 percent of the pollution load, compared with 75 percent required by the EU.
Cerda said that 98 percent of Murcia is connected to a sewage treatment plant "modern and effective."
"Ignorance" of CHS
Asked about the statements of the Segura basin where the water treatment plant draws Archena as guilty of dumping of the past week, the counselor said "is totally unaware" that the Confederacy's attempt to blame this problem plant in the municipality.
The owner of Agriculture and Water said it was an industrial discharge to the sewer system which resulted in the presence of foam in the river and which acted "immediately" and said that these statements "are a lack of loyalty the regional administration that is what has made great efforts to build treatment plants to improve water quality in the river, which today is the least polluted of Spain. "
Source: CARM
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