The company in charge of the integral water cycle of Lanzarote, Canal Gestión, has defended this Friday that it is the Water Consortium of Lanzarote who must "request, process and obtain" the necessary administrative authorizations to be able to discharge wastewater into the sea. In this line, the subsidiary of Canal Isabel II has assured that this responsibility "corresponds exclusively" to the Water Consortium, as the owner of the network and its infrastructures.
Canal Gestión has insisted that although it has been operating the integral water cycle of Lanzarote and La Graciosa since 2013, the ownership of the infrastructures and the powers to process the discharge authorizations belong to the Water Consortium.
As a result of information published by La Voz, it was announced that the company managed three unauthorized discharge points in the Charco de San Gines, based on data published in the official census of discharges from land to sea of the Government of the Canary Islands, updated last week. These three discharges, as in the rest of the island, were managed by Canal, under the ownership of the Water Consortium.
Canal has assured that it has conveyed "on multiple occasions" to the Consortium the need to "undertake adaptation works" to be able to regularize these facilities and that, "the last official communication" took place last week.
Similarly, it has acknowledged that while some infrastructures have expired authorizations and require renewal to regularize their situation, others "never had formal authorization." However, it maintains that the responsibility lies with the Water Consortium.
Finally, it has assured that the Water Consortium has commissioned projects to adapt various facilities and that this "will allow their modernization and administrative regularization."
