The Catalan government plans to invest € 2.3bn until 2040 in water infrastructure so that Catalonia stops depending on rainwater.
The new investment is to build a new water desalination plant on the northern Costa Brava.
The infrastructure would cost € 200M and would require funding from the Spanish government.
The agreements “design” a set of measures that allow Catalonia to reach 70% of its total water consumption guaranteed from its own resources by 2027. For now, the territory has 33% of guaranteed consumption beyond rainwater.
Another of the new plans is to divert wastewater from the Besòs river to the Llobregat to be treated.
The Llobregat already has a network of water purification plants with the capacity to treat the Besòs wastewater. The new Besòs water treatment plants will not be in use until 2033.
