AMAL – Comunidade Intermunicipal do Algarve promoted this Monday, June 12th, a Faro, a training action on the reduction of water losses in the urban sector, aimed at the 19 managing entities of the water supply systems in Baixa, that is, municipalities and municipal companies.
This initiative is part of the projects that the Intermunicipal Community has been carrying out, within the scope of the Algarve Water Efficiency Plan, with the support of the PRR – Recovery and Resilience Plan.
This, which is already the 2nd training action promoted by AMAL, is included in a contract established with the National Laboratory of Civil Engineering (LNEC), in order to guarantee the necessary support to the managing entities in identifying the management problems of the urban infrastructures for the supply of water, defining strategies to be implemented in the medium and long term, prioritizing water supply subsystems and proposing measures to reduce actual water losses.
The Algarve Intermunicipal Community manages one of the various measures that make up the Algarve Water Efficiency Plan: Measure SM1 – Reduce water losses in the urban sector, which has an endowment of 35 million euros.
In this context, it has been developing other actions, having, also in partnership with LNEC, carried out an in-depth study identifying the areas with the greatest potential for reducing water loss and defining the measures to be taken. This study was completed in March last year and helps support the applications submitted by the management entities to benefit from this measure managed by AMAL.
In a first phase of submission of applications, 22 were selected, for an investment of 13,7 million euros, which is allowing intervention in 55 kilometers of water supply network in Baixa, with an estimated saving of more than 500 thousand meters cubics of water.
The second Notice for submission of applications, with an allocation of 7 million euros, is currently in force and runs until the 16th of June, and is directed towards the implementation of Measurement and Control Zones, with the aim of investing in monitoring and active control of water losses in sections of the supply network.
There will also be a third and final Call for Applications, which is in preparation and should be launched at the end of June. It will have an endowment of 14 million euros and will be focused on supporting investment in the renovation and rehabilitation of water supply networks in low waters, with high levels of real losses.
The Algarve Water Efficiency Plan, which foresees a global investment of 200 million euros, through funds from the PRR, is managed by the Portuguese Environment Agency and involves several entities.
AMAL is in charge of implementing Measure SM1, which aims to intervene in 125 kilometers of water supply networks in downtown, contributing to a reduction of water losses in the urban sector of around 2 million m3.
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