The Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge has published the provisional resolution of the second call for the PERTE for Digitization of the Water Cycle. Aid amounting to EUR 300 million that can be consulted in this link.
Among the beneficiaries are two Asturias projects to which 16.292.520.55 euros are provisionally allocated:
· Project ‘Grouping Arrudos 100’ for the implementation of a digitalization model of water cycle management in the supramunicipal systems of Los Arrudos and the agglomeration of Gijón. It receives 6,806,980.24 euros that benefit nine councils: Bimenes, Carreño, Gijón, Laviana, Nava, Noreña, Sariego, Siero and Unascobio.
· Project ‘ANDA Grouping’ for the agglomeration of the Nora and the digitization of water in six councils: Llanera, Nava, Noreña, Oviedo, Sariego and Siero. A provisional allocation of 9,485,540.31 euros is made.
In the first call for grants from this PERTE, a project received 6.5 million euros for the digitization of water in Avilés, Castrillón, Corvera, Gozón, Illas and Carreño.
Throughout the country there are 50 beneficiaries with grants of between 675,000 euros and ten million euros per project. The beneficiaries are operators and holders of urban water supply, sanitation and purification services of various kinds, such as local government entities, public companies, joint enterprises and representatives of the private sector.
The set of projects proposed as beneficiaries will have an essential impact on the transition to digitalization and the new regulatory challenges of the sector, allowing to improve the efficiency of the integrated urban water cycle from catchment, storage and distribution, to sanitation and purification, thus contributing to a more efficient and sustainable use of this resource.
In total, with this provisional resolution and that of the first call for proposals, the PERTE for digitization of the water cycle has already mobilized more than 950 million distributed among urban cycle operators (500 million), irrigation users (100 million), autonomous communities (200 million) and Hydrographic Confederations (150 million).
In the coming weeks, the second call for the use of irrigated water (100 million) through transfers will be published. On the other hand, MITECO is already working on the third call for aid to the urban water cycle that will be through ICO loans, with a projected investment of 635 million. It is expected that, once signed the Agreement with the ICO for the management of this budget, the third call may be published at the end of this year 2024, along with a first call for the improvement of water in the management of the industry of 100 million.