The PSOE of Lanzarote has celebrated the investment of "more than 24 million euros" from the Central Government in Lanzarote destined for the La Santa Irrigation Plan for the execution of a project to Modernize and Improve the Irrigation of the Northeast area of Lanzarote, in Tinajo and Teguise, with the installation of a new desalination plant in La Santa, signed this morning between the ministry and the State Mercantile Society of Agricultural Infrastructures (Seiasa).
The general secretary of the PSOE of Lanzarote and deputy in Congress, María Dolores Corujo, has underlined "the commitment of the Government of Pedro Sánchez with Lanzarote with this investment that has a total investment of 24.4 million euros from Next Generation funds, within the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR)".
"This initiative will allow the modernization of 300 hectares, mainly of horticultural crops, and will benefit 667 irrigators," added Corujo, who pointed out that within this modernization plan the construction of "a seawater desalination plant by reverse osmosis (which will be located in the current northeast treatment plant of Lanzarote), a pumping station, a wind turbine, a pond and a reservoir, as well as an irrigation network" is planned. In addition, the new facilities will have a remote measurement system and the impulse will have a remote control system.
Corujo stressed that this project "will improve the efficient use of water, a vital issue in island spaces and will favor a more sustainable agriculture, as it will allow the use of unconventional water sources, the use of renewable energy, with the consequent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the reduction of the energy bill for irrigators; and promote generational change, improving the quality of life of farmers," they concluded.