The Government, through the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO), allocates 1,533,000 euros to Cantabria for actions of the PERTE of digitization of the water cycle.
The Council of Ministers has authorized the distribution to the autonomous communities and cities of Ceuta and Melilla of 100 million euros of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR) for the budgetary year 2024 within the framework of component 5 ‘Preservation of coastal space and water resources’.
The criteria for the distribution of both aid, which were agreed with the communities in the Sectoral Committee on the Environment of 11 June, will be ratified, once authorized by the Council of Ministers, at the Sectoral Conference on the Environment scheduled for next week.
The PERTE for digitization of the water cycle establishes among its measures the need to support the autonomous communities and cities with 200 million to promote digitization, both among the autonomous administrations with competence in water matters and, above all, among municipalities of less than 20,000 inhabitants, promoting the improvement of water efficiency and the reduction of losses in their supply and sanitation systems.
The first 100 million were transferred to the communities in July 2022, with the proceedings now under way.
In this case, this second phase of the distribution, under the PRTR Addendum, maintains the same distribution criteria that were agreed in the first phase, although the main starting data have been updated: surface area, population, percentage of real water losses in supply networks and number of wastewater discharges to surface waters registered in the National Census of Discharges.
The share amounts are, in general, similar to those made in 2022. These are also feasible investment magnitudes in terms of the investment needs and adjusted PRTR deadlines.
In parallel, in the coming weeks they will publish the provisional resolutions of the second call for the urban water cycle and the first of the irrigation, with a total amount of 400 million.
Work is also being done on other lines of action of the PERTE. So far, more than 500 million of the PERTE for digitizing the water cycle are already being mobilized in different processing phases.