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Councillor for Public Works, Roque Ortiz, participated this morning in a round table on the 'Current situation of urban water' framed in the II Cities Forum which is being held in the IFEMA grounds in Madrid.
In the discussion also they participated José Félix Ballesteros, mayor of Tarragona;
Fernando Morcillo, chief executive of the Spanish Association of Water Supply and Sanitation;
and Jesus Lopez, Deputy Director General Water Management Madrid City Council.
The council has explained that "cities must evolve with the help of technologies for efficient, friendly management environment and therefore sustainable, thus improving the quality of life of citizens".
Thus, he stressed that "Aguas de Murcia invests 600,000 euros annually in research and development, putting in marches over 190 research projects that help improve the efficiency and sustainability of the service"
"These actions of water and energy management efficiency and reduce economic dependence environmental integrated water cycle, also impacting water prices for users," said Ortiz.
The council has indicated that "Aguas de Murcia has launched various initiatives to do so as centralized network management with 415 stations and 35,000 control signals, the microsectorización network, with 260 microsectors and 190 automatic valves, and renewal network and equipment, which are used annually about 5 million euros "
"Annually equipment and consumer installations energy undergo energy audits in order to develop actions aimed at reducing consumption and operating costs as well as increased performance. Thus, the actions taken as a result of audits It occurred during 2015 561.517kwh energy savings and reduced 150TM deco2 "added the councilman
With biogas energy recovery electrical energy produced is used in the own facility for the development of purification processes it is obtained.
Almost 50% of the energy needed is cogenerated avoiding the emission of more than 1,400 tons of CO2 and SO2 38
40hm3 annual wastewater processing plant, since virtually 100% of wastewater generated by the municipality purges, are reused for irrigation and environmental regeneration of river and irrigation ditches.
With the decision to develop a policy for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, has implemented a system for reducing the carbon footprint, it has achieved a drastic reduction since 2011, with a 89.11% less CO2
In 2015 a total of 7,356 contracts have bonus rate, whether pensioners, large families, social background, among others.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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