Workshop on REUSE OF RECLAIMED WATER. CURRENT ISSUES AND FUTURE CHALLENGES.
More than 200 professionals, experts and users of treated sewage from all over Spain participated in a conference on reuse of reclaimed water held in Murcia in June 1-2. The sessions were designed to analyze and find answers to many questions and problems raised by the recent regulations on reuse.
The extraordinary roster of national and international experts who developed the papers consists of professors from the Universities of London, Leeds, Murcia, Oviedo, Barcelona and Jaime I. There were also prominent members of the Ministry of Environment, Hydrographic Confederation of Segura, autonomous regions of Murcia and Valencia, and entities of the cleansing and purifying, who took part in the sessions.
The conference studied the technical conditions and quality criteria for developing the reuse activity, as well as each of the uses to which reclaimed water can be allocated.
The study also addressed the necessary legal titles to develop the activity of water reuse, the impacts to the environment, the rights transfer and the control that water Administration has to carry out on water activity reuse.
The scarcity of water resources affecting good part of Spain turns the re-use activity into a technique that gets considerable relevance due to the fact that it allows a multiple and coordinated use of water and represents a procedure, even in an unconventional way, which allows to increase the available resources.
The Conference was organized by the Euro-Mediterranean Water Institute Foundation. The venue was the hall of the General Archive of the Region of Murcia.
