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The European Union has financed 75% of the works of the desalination plant in el Prat de Llobregat
20/07/2009
July 20, 2009
The European Union has financed 75% of the project of the desalination plant in el Prat de Llobregat. The director of the representation of the European Commission in Spain, Francisco Fonseca, has stressed that the opening of this infrastructure "consolidates the historic gamble of Catalonia to earmark the funds of European solidarity for water management projects"", moving towards a more efficient and sustainable model".
Projects management, debugging, and water that has been made in recent years in Catalonia has had a very high percentage of co-financing by the EU. Thus, infrastructure the treatment plants of the Besòs and Llobregat, or the enlargement and improvement of the purification plant of Abrera, have been financed by 85% with European funds. They have also had European funding construction of networks and basic construction to supply around the Catalan territory.
