Segura River prize

SEGURA RIVER BASIN AUTHORITY. PRESIDENT

MIGUEL ÁNGEL RÓDENAS CAÑADA.

23 June 2016, The Hague, Netherlands

SEGURA RIVER PROJECT SPAIN

Water Governance Initiative 7th Meeting


SEGURA

BASIN

365 mm/year

WATER SCARCITY: Annual rainfall average


EXCEPTIONAL CLIMATE FOR CROPS


SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SYSTEM

AROUND IRRIGATION


5 MILLION TONS 4.300 MILLION EUROS

SEGURA BASIN = 30 % SPAIN

UE : 500 million hab.


FRUITS AND VEGETABLES MARKET

5 MILLION TONS 4.300 MILLION EUROS

SEGURA BASIN = 30 % SPAIN

10 kg / hab. year


FRUITS AND VEGETABLES MARKET


SEGURA RIVER 90’s

DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST SEGURA

RIVER POLUTION

1995 2000 2010 2015

NATIONAL PLAN

1995-2005

SEWAGE & WATER TREATMENT

2005

WASTEWATER

TREATMENT

DIRECTIVE

1991


1995 2000 2010 2015

NATIONAL PLAN

1995-2005


2005

NATIONAL/

REGIONAL

AGREEMENT

WASTEWATER

TREATMENT

DIRECTIVE

1991


BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURES

INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER • SEWER DISCHARGES CONTROL

• ON SITE TREATMENT

LEGAL & ECONOMIC FRAMEWORK FOR

“WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM”

• WASTE WATER RECLAMATION LEVY

• REGIONAL AGENCY

BASIC POLICIES


1995 2000 2010 2015

NATIONAL PLAN

1995-2005


REGIONAL MASTER PLAN

2001-2010

INTEGRATED URBAN WATER

RECLAMATION AND REUSE

SYSTEM

2005

WATER FRAMEWORK

DIRECTIVE

NATIONAL/

REGIONAL

AGREEMENT

WASTEWATER

TREATMENT

DIRECTIVE

1991



2001-2010

‘INTEGRATED URBAN WATER


SYSTEM’


TARGETS

MORE WATER (FOR AGRICULTURAL USE)

RIVER SEGURA AND NATURE RECOVERY

ENFORCING WATER

DIRECTIVES


46 LARGE TREATMENT

PLANTS

525,000 m3/day

“WASTEWATER RECLAMATION SYSTEM”


Title 22 STATE CALIFORNIA WATER CODE

Total coliform <2.2 ufc/100 mL

Turbidity < 2 NTU

TERTIARY TREATMENT

DESIGN CRITERIA FOR PLANTS


99 % URBAN WASTEWATER

TREATED


TREATED VOLUME 111 Mill. m3

REUSED / TREATED 93 %

WASTEWATER RECLAMATION AND REUSE

2010


PROJECT CO-FUNDED BY EUROPEAN UNION

COHESION FUND / ERDF

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT

(SEGURA BASIN AUTHORITY)

PROJECT COST : 700 MILLION EUROS

AGRICULTURE AND WATER REGIONAL DEPARTMENT

CITY COUNCILS


RIVER WATER QUALITY


WILD LIFE RECOVERY (eg: EEL & OTTER)


PONDS LINKED TO WASTEWATER PLANTS


PONDS LINKED TO WASTEWATER PLANTS



SHELTER TO ENDANGERED SPECIES


BIRDS MIGRATION CORRIDOR

INCLUDED IN THE RAMSAR CONVENTION


1995 2000 2010 2015

NATIONAL PLAN

1995-2005



2001-2010

INTEGRATED URBAN WATER


SYSTEM

ENVIRONMENTAL

PROJECTS

LIFE + PROJECTS

WILD LIFE &

FLORA

RESTORATION

2005

WATER FRAMEWORK

DIRECTIVE

NATIONAL/

REGIONAL

AGREEMENT

WASTEWATER

TREATMENT

DIRECTIVE

1991


SEGURA RIVER RESTORATION


LIFE+ PROJECTS TO RESTORE FLORA AND

FAUNA: SOCIAL INTEGRATION


LIFE+ SEGURA RIVERLINK


LIFE+ RIPISILVANATURA


LIFE+ RIPISILVANATURA


NEWS ABOUT THE REVIVED RIVER


A RECOVERED RIVER FOR THE PEOPLE




AND 35 YEARS LATER, SPORTS COMPETITIONS

RETURN TO THE SEGURA RIVER. 21st Feb 2016





THANKS

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