The town of Sant Jaume d'Enveja, in the province of Tarragona, does not currently have a system of for waste water treatment, carrying out the discharge of waste water directly to the River Ebro. Waste water discharges are characterised by being greatly diluted in the summer months by mixing the sewage with the surplus irrigation from rice fields, while in the winter months such dilution does not occur. The action involves the construction of a new waste water treatment plant which can handle an average flow of 2,426 m3/day and construction of auxiliary pipelines.

The town centre of Térmens, in the province of Lleida, currently has a sewer network that is not in use and a sanitation infrastructure to make contributions to irrigation water, which discharges with no treatment directly to the river Segre. Furthermore the town of Menarguens near to Térmens, currently has a collector that collects waste water from the town to which various irrigation branches are incorporated, and as in the case above, the water is discharged into the river Segre without any treatment .

The town Ulldemolins, in the province of Tarragona, does not have any waste water treatment system, currently discharging them through two points to the river Montsant and a third point in the Olla canyon. The action involves the construction of a waste water treatment plant capable of treating current discharges current and those planned in the future.

STATE OF THE ACTION:
Works completed.

In some sections of the lower area of the Ebro, lack of investment and facilities have made the river more of a problem than an asset for the conservation of a heritage that generates wealth and identity. The purpose of this action is the construction and equipping of four visitor centres in the towns of Xerta, Aldover, Mora d'Ebre and Tivenys. The new interpretation centres will disseminate to the public information related to fluvial dynamics, galachos, islands, meanders and river beaches that exist in the lower Ebro

STATE OF THE ACTION:

Works completed.

The action aims to improve the water quality of the Sueca ditches by intercepting waste water discharges and disconnecting them from the network of ditches. This way, the effluent generated is reused efficiently by the waste water treatment plant of Sueca by its discharge into the Major ditch, and thus increase the susceptible irrigated area and change the crop types to be irrigated.

The regions of Vinalopó and Alicantí in the province of Alicante, have had major water shortages for years. This deficit is being covered by the overexploitation of aquifers, several of them have already reached totally unsustainable levels. In coastal regions, where demand is mostly urban, the situation can be successfully resolved by the desalination of seawater, but in the interior regions, where demand is mainly agrarian and stands at quite high levels above sea level, the contribution of resources from other basins is necessary.

The aim of this action is the provision of new resources to ensure supply of the L'ALACANTI area. This new source of supply frees underground resources of overexploited aquifers and allows, in emergency situations, to support the supply of the Marina Baja region. To achieve this goal a new seawater desalination plant is being built in the town of Mutxamel with a production capacity of 50,000 m3/day, extendible to 80,000 m3/day.

STATE OF THE ACTION:

Works received.

To improve the current high level supply network in the city of Málaga, which currently runs through a system of open channeling together with the irrigation, a water catchment is made use of in the Azud de Aljaima, in the channel of the river Guadalhorce, remodeling existing pumping facilities, and a 21 kilometer pipeline from the catchment to the desalination plant of El Atabal.

Chapter seven of the Action Plan for the Protection of the Ebro Delta includes the creation a network of environmental indicators. The action is to implement a network of environmental checkpoint indicators to monitor the flow of water to get to know the water status and its future evolution. It also includes the installation of a control centre and a laboratory for chemical and ecological analysis. This monitoring will allow predictions of the evolution of the state of the Ebro Delta to be set up.

The purpose of the action is to prevent interruptions in communication routes in urban areas of the northern and western districts of the city of Cartagena due to severe flooding caused by the rains.