Servicios de Abastecimiento y Saneamiento - La Tribuna del Agua

SERVICIOS DE ABASTECIMIENTO Y SANEAMIENTO
WATER REUSE PLAN
IN MADRID REGION
Adrián Martín López de las Huertas
ABSTRACT:
In 2005, Isabel II Canal began an ambitious
reuse plan in Madrid Community, with an investment
of over 200 million euros and affecting over
30 treatment plants – will be created an equal
number of tertiary treatments to regenerate a portion
of the effluent. Reclaimed water will serve
to irrigate parks and wash the streets in over 50
municipalities of the 179 in the region. In addition,
water will be used to irrigate over 20 golf
courses – of the current 29 – and some industries
will benefit from this resource because the
price of reclaimed water will be lower than that
for water appropriate for human consumption.
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The current situation of the plan is described:
what has been done, what is in process and what
are the expected timescales to fulfil the final objective
– which is to have some 40 hm 3 of regenerated
water on the market annually. This will help diminish
the rise in consumption of our scarce water
resources and, therefore, increase the guarantee of
a supply as important as that of Madrid Region.
KEYWORDS:
Reuse, regeneration, Madrid Region, irrigation
of urban areas.