The Minister of Agriculture and Water, Antonio Cerdá, and the Mayor of Cieza, Antonio Tamayo, today laid the foundation stone of the system for tertiary treatment of wastewater will improve the quality of water purification Cieza.
The works include an investment of 2.1 million euros, financed by the Cohesion Fund of the European Union by 80 percent and equity of the region.
The owner of Agriculture said that the sewage of Cieza, which is designed for a treatment capacity of 10,000 cubic meters per day, "joins the network of plants that have this degree of purification than required by European standards" .
Cerda said that "Murcia with this system eliminates 98 percent of the pollution load, compared with 75 percent established by the European Union."
"The improvement in water quality has allowed the Segura river is a living river and the least polluted of Spain," the Minister of Agriculture and Water.
This treatment process will allocate water reused in irrigation volumes local, "providing more resources to agriculture in the area," said Cerda, who noted that the works are located within the existing wastewater treatment plant Cieza in the area opposite the biological treatment.
This action is included in the General Plan of cleansing and purifying of the Region of Murcia, with which it was determined that 98 percent of the population is connected to a sewage treatment plant and "Murcia is the only region fully recovers its waters. "
Source: CARM