The main objective for this initiative is to generate water resources both for urban and agricultural purposes thanks to the construction of this plant with a production capacity of 30 hm3/year.

The infrastructure consists of a pipeline that supplies water from the Negratín reservoir, in the Guadalquivir basin, to the Almanzora basin, a transfer authorised by decree of December 1999. The infrastructure transports 50 Hm 3 per year and is made up from a 120 km line, 7 regulation pools with a total capacity of 1.35 Hm 3 and two small hydro power plants.

STATE OF THE ACTION:
The Almanzora connection Negratín entered service in February 2004.

The infrastructure consists of a desalination plant for seawater with treatment capacity of 120,000 m3/day, and a pipeline to supply water to the town of Carboneras and Agua Amarga (Pedanía Nijar). Guaranteed resources are generated with the action for the supply and to East Almería and for irrigation to Campo de Nijar. These resources are then distributed with the infrastructures included in the proceedings "1.2.c Interconnection Carboneras- Almanzora" and "6.2.c Connection Almanzora -West Almería Phase I".

STATE OF THE ACTION:

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.

The aim of the action is to incorporate the waste water treatment plants of Cala Mijas and Manilva to the tertiary treatments needed to regenerate the purified water, so that water quality being supplied to the golf courses and green areas is improved. The action provides for the distribution of reclaimed water to the golf courses in line with Article 4 of Decree 240/2005 of 2 November, of the Junta de Andalucía, which governs the exceptional measures during drought in various municipalities in Málaga, including those of the western Costa del Sol.

The purpose of the action involves the upgrading of existing treatment systems in purification plants of Estepona and Marbella, to obtain a quality product that allows water reuse for irrigation of golf courses

The action involves the construction of pipelines connecting the major deposits of the GALASA supply network with the main pipeline executed in the previous two sub-actions. In this way the objective of ensuring supply and joint management is achieved, since each of the deposits will be supplied from the water treatment plant of Cuevas de Almanzora and from the pipeline that comes from the Carboneras desalination plant.

The use of resources of the Guadalhorce reservoirs and underground aquifer, by the Town Council of Málaga, is limited by the lack of water quality. With this action the issue of quality is achieved by the desalination plant and the adequacy of existing facilities. A desalination plant was built for brackish water with reverse osmosis technology and production capacity of 165,000 m3/day was built in order to make full use of the resources. These facilities are located in the vicinity of El Atabal WWTP thus being able to take advantage of existing infrastructures.

The purpose of this action is to run a distribution network that allows reclaimed waste water from the Arroyo de la Miel WWTP (Benalmádena) to be used for irrigation of different golf courses and public gardens located in the municipality of Benalmádena (Málaga).
Works completed and handed over to users for their operation and maintenance on April 12th, 2012

The purpose of this action is to carry out an extension of the existing tertiary treatment plant at the La Víbora WWTP (Marbella) to increase the amount of reclaimed water available for irrigation to 25,000 m3/day and the distribution network that allows the reclaimed waste water of La Víbora WWTP (Marbella) to be used for irrigation of golf courses and other public gardens located in the municipality of Marbella (Málaga).