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Barcelona inaugurates a pipeline for the irrigation of gardens and street cleaning
28/01/2011
on January 28, 2011
It has entered into operation the last stretch of the leadership that will take water from the sewage treatment plant in El Prat in Barcelona for irrigation, road and industrial cleaning. According to the City Council of Barcelona, driving and its corresponding tail tank (located in the mountain of Montjuic) will allow the exploitation of 400,000 cubic metres of treated water from the station of regeneration of waters (ERA) of El Prat.
The last opened section corresponds to the last 3.4 kilometres of the pipeline and has cost 1.9 million euros, financed in charge of the European cohesion funds. At the opening of this section, the Mayor of Barcelona, Jordi Hereu, stated that "today Barcelona returns to be pioneer" and that it should not "appear ever more to the world as the city which has to receive water in ships". For its part, the Councillor for the environment, Imma Mayol, said that the objective of the City Council is "90% of the water they consume municipal services be clean".
