Investment, which is around 20,000 euros, will allow for greater efficiency, fewer maintenance problems and reduced carbon footprint

The Urban Development area of the City Council of Roquetas de Mar e Hidralia, concessionaire of the drinking water and sewerage service of Roquetas, have completed the execution of the work for the renovation of drinking water drive pumps for the filling of Sector V tanks, in the area of Las Colinas. Water drive pumps are the central axis of hydraulic systems and allow you to control both the flow rate and the water pressure that reaches the grid. Thanks to this action, which has replaced the two old pumps, of 60 Kw, with more efficient ones of 37 Kw, "energy efficiency is improved, with a reduction in consumption of 30%, delving into one of the strategic objectives of the area, the reduction of the carbon footprint", notes the councilor for Urban Development, Francisco Gutiérrez, who has visited the facilities together with the manager of Hydralia , Alvaro Islán.

This improvement will also allow "to significantly reduce maintenance problems throughout the sector to which the station is located, of 500 cubic meters", reveals the building. The investment made by Hidralia and the City Council is around 20,000 euros. "We are very pleased with this investment, which has also been made elsewhere in the city. We are going to improve the infrastructures, as set out in the strategic objective posed by the mayor, improve the infrastructures of drinking water, sanitation and stormwater throughout the city, we work to ensure that in the coming months a modernization of the entire network is under way", reveals Gutierrez.
This task is carried out in close collaboration with the Consortium of the Integral Water Cycle of Poniente Almeriense. Roquetas de Mar has managed to get its current consumption of desamented water already, points out the urban development edil "90% of the total, which contributes decisively to the objective of taking care of our most precious good, which is the aquifer of the Westeros, which has given rise to the economic miracle of the whole region". In this sense, he adds, it seeks to "stop overexploiting it and regenerate it, so that it is no longer in danger of salinization".

For the president of the Consortium of the Integral Water Cycle of Poniente Almeriense, it is essential "the support of the Junta de Andalucía and it is to be appreciated that its councillor is giving everything for this city, we are very happy with the commitments that are being acquired and we also hope to count on the collaboration of the ministry to achieve the objectives set in terms of improving supply and purification". Likewise, Gutierrez thanks Alvaro Islán "the commitment of Hidralia to this city" and the "joint work for the good of the citizens of Roquetas".

Islán explains that thanks to the investment made in this pumping station "we have improved the hydraulic capacity of the pump outlet and significantly reduced the loss of load". The action has also been framed in "improving the prevention of occupational hazards, with a new cantilevered soil that allows much better accessibility of operators and maintenance with much greater efficiency". Similarly, "we have changed the luminaires, works that are part of the objective of sustainable development, being focused on a reduction in the impact of the carbon footprint".

The Local Government Board approved this week, at its last session, to initiate an action of improvements of the sanitation network in Amapola Street and Avenida de Perú, with the construction of a new onslaught. Similar work will also begin in other areas of the municipality in the coming days.