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After being present in the activities that developed regionally in the Museum of the Huerta, the Minister of Agriculture, Water and Fisheries of the Region of Murcia, Miguel Angel del Amor and the mayor of Alcantarilla, Joaquín Buendía, came to visit the Los Guillermos Drinking Water Treatment Station, accompanying the IES Alcántara students who were also visiting the plant invited by Hidrogea, the concessionaire of water management in our municipality.

There they were received by the management team of the company, within the events organized by Hidrogea for the World Water Day, which included the realization of a live program of COPE, in its regional area.

ETAP Los Guillermos is located 11 kilometers west of Alcantarilla, between the roads of Barqueros and the Northwest motorway (Mula-Caravaca), next to the left bank of the Tajo-Segura waterway.

There they have been able to learn about the processes of purification to which the water is subjected before it reaches the homes, as well as all the controls through which it passes and that make it the most watched and safe food in the world.

The mayor of Alcantarilla, Joaquín Buendía, stressed "the importance for the Region of Murcia has the Tajo-Segura transfer, but very special for the citizens of Sewer, since in this Drinking Water Treatment Station in the well-known Los Guillermos, belonging to the Sewer City Council, receives flows from the left bank of the Postrasvase Tajo-Segura canal, has a water concession granted by the Segura Hydrographic Confederation of 2.3 Hm3 per year, 2.3 million m3 ".

Buendía said that "the water that supplies Sewer is made drinkable and it can treat up to 9600 m3 daily." It is a modernized and updated plant with numerous investments, with an automated operation and with technologies such as double filtration in sand and coal. active, as well as the treatment of water by Ozone, as we have been able to verify with the Counselor.These treatments, grant and guarantee a perfect fulfillment of the current legislation, counting also with a multitude of accreditations granted by independent organisms, in matters of quality, environmental or food safety ".

ETAP Los Guillermos has a 240,000 m3 regulating reservoir, which guarantees self-sufficiency for up to one month, the stages followed by water would be: preoxidation, coagulation, flocculation, decantation, sand filtration, active carbon filtration and sterilization.

The water, once treated, is conducted through a pipeline of 11 km in length to the municipal deposits located in Alcantarilla. In those previous moments of the water flow to the regulatory deposits near the urban helmet of Sewer, both the students and the Authorities that visited the ETAP were able to drink water that was already treated in the plant itself.

The plant operates 24 hours a day, every day of the year and as indicated is automated enough to be operated by a single operator per shift.

It also has an internal control laboratory in which thousands of process analyzes are carried out, ensuring that all parameters of the water produced are within the permitted margins.

With the concession and with complementary contributions of the network of the Mancomunidad de los Canales del Taibilla, it is supplied to the municipality of Alcantarilla (industrial and domestic), which has a population of more than 40,000 people.

Those responsible for Hidrogea said that the company maintains a firm commitment to citizens of the municipalities where it operates, continues to create ways to protect the resource so that no one is left behind.

To meet this challenge, it works day by day in order to guarantee a sustainable water and sanitation service, accessible to all, with all the sanitary guarantees.

They also appreciated these awareness actions, such as these scheduled visits to their facilities, Hidrogea aims to raise awareness about the importance of water and respect for the environment, cultivating the care and rational use of a scarce resource, as promoted by the UN with the celebration of World Water Day, which is celebrated on March 22.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Alcantarilla