The island of Lanzarote will receive an investment of around 15,000 million pesetas for various sanitation, purification and reuse of water until 2013, after the Autonomous Executive and the State proceed to sign the agreement in this matter, possibly at the beginning of next year 2006.
This was confirmed this morning by the Councilor for Territorial Policy and Environment of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Carlos Espino, and the General Director of Water of the Government of the Canary Islands, Orlando Umpiérrez, during the celebration of a meeting in which the current situation of the basic project of sanitation, purification and reuse of Arrecife, Caleta de Sebo, Órzola, El Golfo, Playa Quemada and other nuclei of the coast of Lanzarote was addressed.
The execution of this project, which will also include the sanitation of Arrecife and Puerto del Carmen, depends today on the signing of a water agreement with the Central Government, which will mean for the Island about 15 million of the old pesetas until 2013.
As Umpiérrez pointed out, these works will mean that Lanzarote is the first Island in the entire Archipelago to complete the infrastructures of the National Hydrological Plan.
Reclassification
Those gathered have spoken about the reclassification in the near future of some land that will be used for the passage of the sanitation networks planned for the towns of the coast of Lanzarote.
"Both administrations are working together to have the absolute certainty that the land and locations chosen for this purpose meet the relevant requirements, since some of these facilities could clash with the restrictions of the current P.I.O.T.", commented Carlos Espino, adding that "this circumstance reinforces the need, demanded for some time, to review the current system of ordering and containing the territory in Lanzarote".
This meeting also served to finish some pending fringes in the collaboration between both administrations, as well as to summon both parties to future meetings.
