Emergency funding for water supplies in the Marina Alta - Move to
abolish Marina Alta Water Consortium
In the 21st Century such shortages
should not happen when there is water in the aquifers and desalination
plants. From: Cadenaser.com
The Valencia Government, Diputación de Alicante and Jucar River Basin Authority will be meeting next
week with the villages in the Marina
Alta region which are most affected
by water shortage and poor drinking
water quality.
Mercadona creates 5000 summer
jobs
At this meeting a document detailing
emergency funding of €1.5 million to
deal with the summer drought situation will be revealed.
The Director General of water, Manuel Aldeguer said the Water supplies Consortium of the Marina Alta
(Consorcio de Abastecimiento y Saneamiento de Aguas de la Marina Alta
(Casama)) was obsolete and had been
in existence since 1987, but had never
resulted in any investment, therefore
the agreement setting it up should be
renounced by the Diputación. (Ed’s
note: CASAMA has just moved its
HQ to Xàbia).
The areas most affected by the water shortage are the Val de Pop (Xaló,
Alcalalí and Lliber) and other tourist
towns such as Benissa are in danger.
The plan would be to build more water treatment plants and transfer water between municipalities.
Mercadona has created 5000 new
jobs for the summer season (June
to September), 1000 more than last
year on expectations of a busy tourist
season this year. It has a workforce
of 75,000 people and 1,584 shops.
From: El Economista
Iberdrola earmarks 128,000 euros
to expand the capacity of the Xàbia
substation
The company requested permission
at the end of 2015 for work aimed
at improving the quality of the substation 132 / 20kV of Javea, to “improve the quality and continuity of the
power supply in the distribution network.” The work will takje 9 months
and will therefore not be completed
by this summer. From: XAD
Big investments in Spain’s
enewable Energy sector
A wind of change is blowing on
Spain’s renewables: companies and
investment funds have been on a
buying spree, taking advantage of
the know-how and growth prospects
of a sector still limping out of a cri-