The Water Consortium announces that Lanzarote will increase its desalinated water production capacity by 10,000 cubic meters per day with the recovery and commissioning of rack number 3 at the Lanzarote III plant, located at the Díaz Rijo Desalination Plant, in Punta de los Vientos. The entity has put this action out to tender with a budget of 6,482,785.09 euros and an execution period of 14 months.
The tender, published last Friday in the Official Journal of the European Union, includes the comprehensive recovery and rehabilitation of this rack, including all necessary actions for its supply, assembly, adaptation, installation, and commissioning. The objective is to recover an infrastructure with the capacity to produce another 10,000 cubic meters of desalinated water each day and to significantly reinforce the supply system's capacity for Lanzarote and La Graciosa.
The president of the Lanzarote Water Consortium, Oswaldo Betancort, emphasizes that this new investment "demonstrates that we are strictly fulfilling the commitments derived from the declaration of the water emergency. We committed to increasing water production, reducing losses through the renovation of pipes and networks, and promoting a culture of water and savings, and we are decisively advancing in each of these objectives."
Betancort adds that "incorporating 10,000 more cubic meters per day to our production capacity represents a very important leap to provide greater security and stability to the supply. We are recovering infrastructure that for years was not in the necessary condition and mobilizing investments that allow us to face the growing demand and needs of Lanzarote and La Graciosa."
The action is being carried out at the current Lanzarote III facility, at the Díaz Rijo Desalination Plant, considered essential infrastructure for the production of desalinated water on the island. The project stems from the water emergency situation and the need to increase production due to rising water demand, population and tourism growth, and the deterioration and obsolescence of certain old racks.
The base tender budget amounts to 6,482,785.09 euros, with 0% IGIC, and the investment is distributed over two annual installments: 5 million euros during 2026 and 1,482,785.09 euros in 2027. The planned timeframe for executing the works is 14 months.
A fundamental part of the financing comes from the Ministry of Territorial Policy, Territorial Cohesion and Water of the Government of the Canary Islands, which incorporated into its Strategic Subsidy Plan a direct nominated aid of 5 million euros to the Lanzarote Water Consortium, specifically for the renovation of the EDAM Lanzarote III and the recovery of racks at the Díaz Rijo Desalination Plant, while the Consortium completes the necessary financing to reach the 6.48 million euros of investment.
The Minister of Water of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Domingo Cejas, highlights that "we are acting simultaneously on the main problems of the system: we need to produce more water, but also to ensure that a larger part of what we produce effectively reaches the reservoirs and users. Therefore, the increase in production must necessarily be accompanied by the renovation of the networks and the reduction of losses."
Cejas also points out that "behind this tender there is a whole desk effort in the preparation of the project for the recovery of the rack, which we finished at the end of 2025, and which obtained a favorable technical supervision report in April 2026. The commissioning of this new rack is an action of enormous importance within the set of investments we are executing during the water emergency to strengthen the entire system."
The contract is being processed through an open procedure, subject to harmonized regulation and with urgent character. The Consortium justifies this procedure by the existence of an unavoidable need and reasons of public interest directly linked to the declared water emergency in Lanzarote and La Graciosa and the need to guarantee the supply of drinking water.
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