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This news article was originally written in Spanish. It has been automatically translated for your convenience. Reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate translation, however, no automated translation is perfect nor is it intended to replace a human translator. The original article in Spanish can be viewed at Averías y desperfectos se llevan el 16% del agua consumida en España

Failures and damages are 16% of the water consumed in Spain

22/03/2011

on March 22, 2011

The losses of water in the public networks by escapes, breaks and failures reach 16% in Spain, as it informed it the General Union of Workers (UGT), by what consider that it is necessary to advance in the application of the 'National Plan of Quality of the Waters: saneamiento and depuración 2007-2015', as it emphasized this union.

Besides, the UGT remembered in the frame of the World-wide Day of the Water, that celebrates on 22 March, that is necessary “incentivar the saving by means of suitable prices and equitativas socially”, as well as “subordinate the planning urbanística to  the hydrological, boost the reuse of alternative waters, reserving the maximum quality to the destined water to the domestic supply and establish a good gobernanza of the resource with transparency and participation of the social agents and other parts interested”.

In this sense, have signalled that in Spain the loss of quality of the waters of human supply “is due to the pollution of the freshwater ecosystems" by the increase of load contaminante associated so much to poured direct of origin indusrial and domestic as to derivative diffuse pollution of the agricultural activity and grazier, what reduces the capacity of autorregeneración of the half hídrico.

On the other hand, UGT has required that supports a "strategic approach of management of the water in the cities," coherent with the managerial frame of water and based in the principles of prevention of the deterioration of the aquatic ecosystems, guarantee of the supply for a sustainable use of the resource, and progressive advance to the recovery of the costs.

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