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The Minister of Agriculture and Water, Antonio Cerdá, and the mayor of Blancal, Rafael Laorden, today inaugurated the new tertiary treatment of the sewage of the town, which will significantly improve the quality of treated water.
The owner of Agriculture and Water said this action "will provide higher quality water," with a level of treatment "is more advanced secondary," which is required by EU regulations for safe reuse of wastewater.
This system has a treatment capacity plus 208 cubic meters per hour, which means the recovery of up to half a million cubic meters of water per year.
Cerda said that this system removes 97 percent of the pollution, "well above the 75 percent required by the European Union."
He added that "completed the purification system throughout the River Segura in Murcia".
The new system is designed with sand filters and ultraviolet radiation, which can get nearly the complete reduction of pathogens, giving full guarantees for use in irrigation water as it leaves the water prepotable.
The works, which have invested 1.4 million euros, are to be financed from the Cohesion Fund of the European Union by 80 percent.
Cerda said further that the drainage and treatment performances "have been a substantial change in the Segura river improvement which is the highest quality of all the rivers of Spain, well above the national average".
Source: CARM
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