The cut-off low (DANA) known as Adam has damaged 29 wastewater treatment plants in the provinces of Valencia and Alicante, the Valencian regional government (Generalitat Valenciana) reported on 22 October. The first damage estimate is 2.5 million euros: about two million in the province of Valencia and 500,000 euros in Alicante. The President of the

The town council of San Clemente (Cuenca, Spain) will rely on its municipal wells and its drinking water treatment plant to maintain supply while the Tubería Manchega pipeline is cut off. Its mayor, Víctor Luis Camacho, explained this on Radio Azul (Cadena SER) on 21 October. The cut is due to damage to two sections

Sydney Water is developing a new pre-treatment plant for the Prospect water filtration plant, which, according to Alfa Laval, supplies around 85% of Sydney's population, some 5.4 million people. It is being designed and built by a Suez-Acciona joint venture, which won the A$322 million (€199 million) contract, according to Acciona. The plant will have

The technology centres AINIA, the Energy Technology Institute (ITE) and INESCOP have launched Prisma-D, a project to develop a platform for the early detection of contaminants and chemical and biological threats in water, sludge, food and other complex environments. It is coordinated by AINIA and supported by the Valencian Institute for Competitiveness and Innovation (IVACE+i)

TecnoAqua has published a technical article on microplastics at the La Golondrina wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in Córdoba (Spain), operated by Emacsa. It summarises a research project promoted by the Emacsa Chair together with the company Captoplastic. The authors are Amparo Fernández Benito, Belén Carboneras Contreras and Gonzalo Vega Marcilla, of Captoplastic, and Rafael Marín

At its annual general meeting on 14 October, the Spanish Association of Water Technology Companies (Asagua) urged public authorities to change course on urban water services: to move from announcements to delivery, with long-term planning, stable funding and public procurement that responds to the sector's real needs. The association puts the accumulated investment shortfall in

The 4th Iberaqua Congress takes place on 27 and 28 October in Barcelona, organised by Aqua España and the trade publications TecnoAqua and IndustriAmbiente, published by Infoedita. Following the announcement of the congress and its first two panels, on legislation and financing, TecnoAqua has now outlined the rest of a programme that runs to ten

In early October the Facsa-Fovasa Chair at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the Júcar River Basin Authority (Confederación Hidrográfica del Júcar, CHJ) devoted a conference to water reuse, entitled "Agua regenerada: ciencia y casos prácticos de un recurso imprescindible en la actualidad" (Reclaimed water: science and case studies of an essential resource today).

On 7 October the Spanish Desalination and Reuse Association (AEDyR) brought together public authorities, companies, financial institutions and water users in Madrid, at the Association of Civil Engineers (Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos), for the conference "Financiando el Agua del Futuro: Planes, Herramientas y Modelos de Inversión" (Financing the Water of the

According to IndustriAmbiente, the Metropolitan Council (Consell Metropolità) of the AMB (Barcelona Metropolitan Area) has approved the ranking of bids in the tender to manage drinking water supply in eight municipalities, and the top-ranked bid is that of SGAB (Sociedad General de Aguas de Barcelona), part of the Veolia group. The ranking is the step