This year marks the centenary of the creation of Spain's river basin authorities, the confederaciones hidrográficas, and the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) has marked the occasion with a book presented by its Directorate-General for Water: Confederaciones Hidrográficas. 1926-2026. Cien años de historia, cien años de futuro (River Basin Authorities.

According to IndustriAmbiente, the Board of the Water Infrastructure Finance Authority of Arizona (WIFA), an agency of the Arizona state government, has approved the first phase of the evaluation study for the Northern Gulf of California Desalination Plant. The proposal is led by Sacyr, with Arcadis U.S., Inc. and Plenary Americas US Holdings Inc. The

The thirteen reservoirs that Canal de Isabel II uses to supply the Madrid region start the new hydrological year with 590 cubic hectometres in storage, 62.5% of their maximum capacity. That is 0.7 percentage points below the average for this time of year, and the public water company describes it as normal, with supply guaranteed

A team from Aqlara Ciclo Integral del Agua and the Research Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (IIAMA) of the Universitat Politècnica de València has published a technical article in TecnoAqua on the bacteria involved in biological phosphorus removal at a full-scale, operating treatment plant. The authors are Óscar Mateo Llosá, Carmen Merediz Miranda and

Infoedita is organising, with Libelium, a webinar entitled "La transformación del control ambiental industrial: claves desde la industria, la normativa y la tecnología" (The transformation of industrial environmental control: insights from industry, regulation and technology). It will take place on Tuesday 27 October 2026 at 10:00. According to the announcement, professionals from several companies will

iAgua Data, the report series of the Spanish water portal iAgua, has calculated how much Spain will need to invest to comply with Directive (EU) 2024/3019 concerning urban wastewater treatment. It is iAgua's own model-based estimate, not an official figure. In the central scenario, the works the Directive requires at treatment plants add up to

The 4th Iberaqua Congress brings together public authorities, industry and industrial water technology companies on 27–28 October at the Hotel SB Icaria in Barcelona. It is organised by AQUA ESPAÑA, TecnoAqua and IndustriAmbiente, and water reuse takes up a large part of the programme: four of its ten panels deal with water treatment and reuse.

Between 2015 and 2021, phosphate concentrations in rivers fell in 11 of the 16 European countries with sufficient data. In Spain they rose. This is one of the findings of a study by the Research Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (IIAMA) of the Universitat Politècnica de València, led by researchers María Pachés Giner and

On 18 September, members of NORTH LINE visited the Pinedo wastewater treatment plant, operated by the joint venture UTE GOM-SAV-CICLAGUA Pinedo VI. We were taken through how the facility has developed over time, including its expansions and the upgrades made to meet evolving regulatory requirements, and we toured the plant in detail to see first-hand