GOB and Matas: the environmental impact of the desalinisation plants

The GOB thinks that the proposal by the Spanish minister, Jaume Matas, to build a total of six desalinisation plants in the Balearics to resolve the problem of lack of water, is, from an economic and environmental point of view, a real disaster, since they would result shortly in the need to build a new power station, in view of the high power consumption needed to run the plants.

Therefore, the ecological group thinks that the priority in relation to water in the Balearics is to invest in other essential directions, such as a change in the hydraulic policy, with a view to administering the actual resources better and at the same time to promote water savings, the reuse of treated sewage water and the paralisation of urban growth.

Date of publication: 13/06/2000

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