The Minister of Territorial Policy, Territorial Cohesion and Water of the Government of the Canary Islands, Manuel Miranda, announced today in Parliament that the department he heads will award the drafting of the project to complete the sanitation and purification of wastewater in La Graciosa during the first half of April. Miranda recalled that, while this initiative is being processed, "the Government is assuming the costs of cleaning wells through a subsidy of 400,000 euros in 2025 to the Teguise City Council", an investment that adds to another 200,000 euros allocated for this purpose in 2024.
In response to a parliamentary question about this project, the head of Water recalled that this is a priority action for the regional Executive. Proof of this, he recalled, is that on December 9 the planning was suspended and the transitional rules were approved, and on January 29 the project was declared of regional interest. "We are following the roadmap agreed with residents and merchants," he said, "with whom we will meet again next April to report on the progress, both in the sanitation and purification project, and in the supply project."
Regarding the latter, Manuel Miranda reported that it is already in environmental processing and that his department hopes that "before the end of the year the replacement of the pipeline that supplies water to the Island can begin", with an approximate cost of 2.3 million euros. The Minister recalled that the objective of this intervention is to definitively end the historical supply problems suffered by residents and merchants of La Graciosa.
Regarding the project to complete sanitation and purification, "we have managed to provide legal certainty to carry out the works, which were stopped in 2017 due to urban planning problems," Miranda indicated. This project must be completed in October of this year, to continue its environmental processing and start the works in the first quarter of 2026.
Manuel Miranda recalled that in the budgets of the department he heads there are two million euros for both projects, and he highlighted "the close collaboration with both the Island Council of Lanzarote and the City Council of Teguise in the development of the procedure, and the permanent communication with the residents and businessmen of La Graciosa".
