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With the impending news of updated water restrictions in the Marbella area, I did a little digging. Assurances had been given earlier in the year that the slack in the water supply would be taken up by cranking up and modernizing the Desalination Plant situated on the road to Istán on the outskirts of Marbella.
So what I found was an announcement on 23rd September 2024 that the first phase of the expansion of the Marbella Desalination Plant, aimed at reaching 12 hm3/year, was completed this September. This was announced last week and accompanied by a photo showing the various Ministers, Dignitaries, the Boss of Acosol (the State owned water supply company) and the Mayors of Estepona, Benalmádena, Fuengirola, Mijas, Manilva, Torremolinos and Benahavís.
Two steps had been scheduled by the Junta de Andalucia. The first phase to take capacity from 6 to 12 hm3/year – was completed by June 24 – and a second, which began in June, to go from 12 to 20 hm3/year will be completed between the end of 24 and the beginning of 2025. These were set out in the Drought Plus Strategy. The work covering the initial capacity of 20 hm3, carried an investment of €4.35m, and, a second initiative to improve the quality of the water, will cost €2.99m.
Currently, the desalination plant is operating with five of its available frames in operation and producing 35,000 m³ per day, or the equivalent of 1 hm³ per month – hence 12 hm3 per annum.
At the gathering, the Mayor of Marbella, Ángeles Muñoz, highlighted that in this city “Water is much more than a basic need, it is a pillar that supports our tourist activity and our economic engine.” “The work that is being carried out is not only an investment in infrastructure, but also in the well-being and sustainability of our area.”
The Minister for Agriculture, Water and Rural Investment announced that the Andalusian Government is finalizing a tender for the project to expand and improve the Drinking Water Treatment Plant (ETAP) in Río Verde, in Marbella, worth more than €37m. This action will improve both the quality of the water and the pipelines of a fundamental infrastructure for this area, which date back to the early 1970s and had become “completely obsolete”. With this tender, the treatment capacity will be doubled, going from 173,000 m3 per day to 400,000 m3.
It was announced that the Andalusian Government has also completed the improvement of the interconnection between the Western Costa del Sol and Malaga after an investment of more than €1m that allows greater transfer capacity between both systems. Additionally, the work of recovering the wells of Bajo Guadalhorce is well underway – with a planned investment of more than €15.4m – that will increase the guarantee of supply to the city of Malaga.
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