Canal Gestión Lanzarote has requested that the Canary Islands Consultative Council have "all the necessary elements of judgment" before issuing an opinion on the contract termination procedure initiated by the Lanzarote Water Consortium.
The company recalls that the Consortium has initiated proceedings to terminate the water management contract on the Island due to a "purported cause of termination attributable" to Canal Gestión Lanzarote. However, it emphasizes that it has also submitted a written request to the Consortium itself requesting the termination of the contract "due to the serious and repeated breaches" attributed to the public entity.
In this regard, Canal Gestión considers that "it will be difficult for the Canary Islands Consultative Council to issue an opinion adjusted to the current situation" without also knowing the arguments contained in that document. Therefore, the company has formally requested that this documentation be sent to the consultative body so that it can rule "in a coherent, complete, and well-founded manner on the true cause of the contractual crisis, its imputability, and the consequences that, if applicable, should arise from the eventual termination of the contract".
Incidents at the Lanzarote V desalination plant
Taking advantage of this statement, Canal Gestión Lanzarote has also responded to declarations made in recent days regarding the incident registered at the Lanzarote V desalination plant.
The company assures that this infrastructure "was not built by Canal Gestión Lanzarote", but was constructed by the Government of the Canary Islands in 2014 and is owned by the Lanzarote Water Consortium.
Regarding the breakdown registered last week in one of the plant's modules, Canal Gestión states that it was addressed "immediately" by its technical teams, who worked "continuously" and mobilized "all available human and technical resources" until the service was restored.
However, the company maintains that the water outages were not solely due to this incident, but also to "the concatenation of another incident that occurred in the mobile desalination plant managed directly by the Water Consortium", whose unavailability "prolonged and aggravated" the reduction in the island's production capacity. Furthermore, it adds that, as of the date of this statement, "the Consortium has not yet put its portable desalination plant into operation."
Defense of maintenance
Canal Gestión Lanzarote also defends that it complies "responsibly" with its contractual maintenance obligations, a matter that, it assures, "has been accredited through independent external audits".
The company estimates the availability rate of the Lanzarote V desalination plant at 98.39% during 2025, including necessary downtime for maintenance work.
Likewise, it emphasizes that, in "more than thirteen years of service provision", the Water Consortium "has not initiated any sanctioning proceedings" for the alleged breaches in maintenance that it now refers to.
On the contrary, Canal Gestión highlights that it has carried out rehabilitation and improvement actions in other plants, such as Lanzarote IV in 2016 and Lanzarote III in 2021, investments that, according to it, "are included in the files of the Water Consortium itself".
Criticism of the Consortium
In the statement, the company accuses the Water Consortium of "justifying its shortcomings and null investments in desalination" by blaming Canal Gestión Lanzarote to "evade its responsibility for the water cuts suffered by the population".
The company insists that the hydraulic infrastructures are owned by the Consortium and recalls that this body "has repeatedly announced plans and investments in desalination that have not materialized", which, it maintains, has generated "a structural deficit that directly affects the operation of the system and the quality of the service".
As an example, Canal Gestión points out that the Consortium announced in 2023 the expansion of the Díaz Rijo desalination plants for 9.5 million euros, works that "three years later have still not begun".
Despite this, the company emphasizes its "commitment to responsible service provision, institutional loyalty, and the defense of its good name", and assures that it will continue to act "with technical and legal rigor" while ongoing administrative and judicial proceedings continue.
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