The Environmental Impact Study of the future Algarve Desalination Plant, whose construction is scheduled for Albufeira, will be delivered «next week», announced this Monday, July 3, the Secretary of State for the Environment.
Hugo Pires participated in a ceremony at the Castro Marim Golfe & Country Club and, speaking to journalists, said with the Government he awaits what the technicians will say about the desalination plant.
«We took a political decision to invest in a desalination plant in Portugal. Now, it is up to the technicians to carry out the Environmental Impact Study and we will wait for them to tell us what impacts this decision has», he added.
Asked about what he expects from this EIA, the government official was curt: "let's wait".
The desalination plant is one of the planned investments in the Algarve Water Efficiency Plan.
The plant will cost 50 million euros, with support from the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), and will have a capacity of up to 24 cubic hectometers.
After studies carried out by Águas de Portugal, the Government has already announced that it will propose the municipality of Albufeira as the installation site of the desalination plant.
The expectation of António Costa's executive is also that the tender for the work will be launched by the end of the year, as the Minister for the Environment said about a month ago, on a visit to the Algarve.
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