El Mayor of Xàbia He has opened this morning by the director general of water, Manuel Aldeguer, and CEO of Grupo Aguas de Valencia, Dionisio García Comín, the technical conference "Water and energy nexus in the urban water cycle" A forum for analysis and debate on the necessary consumption of energy such as electricity or gas to produce and distribute water. A day organized by the municipal water company of Xàbia, Amjasa, and the Technological Institute of Water (ITA) of the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
Chulvi noted that water management is "Xàbia a strategic issue for many years since, due to the nature of our demand marked by strong pressure from tourism and natural conditions, we had to look for alternatives to guarantee supply". In this sense he talked about the desalination plant and the efforts made Amjasa to try to be more efficient in all phases of management. In addition, awareness among neighbors to keep consumption within the limits of capacity.
The mayor of Xàbia spoke about the periodic problems of supply suffered by the region and those who "so far no administration has been able to give a collective and consensual response, to seek the good of all and to tell all". This situation has highlighted Chulvi, threatening "not only for human consumption but also economic development and environmental balance of the Marina Alta". Therefore calls for a solution "thinking at a regional level it is necessary to establish common energy and environmental responsibility policies".
For his part, Manuel Aldeguer, has agreed to be take into account the energy cost when planning any water infrastructure. And start thinking that it is a priority to integrated management of water and of treated water for irrigation. Therefore, there Jettisonable stop nitrates and phosphates tons of treated water is discharged.
In today's session it has focused the need to reduce these energy consumption linked to production and distribution of water to combat climate change and the greenhouse effect. In addition, to improve the comxicotetiveness of the sector.
The workshop, which has lasted all morning, participated speakers such as Enrique Cabrera, head of the ITA and Amjasa manager, Josep Lluis Henarejos. Henarejos talked about how traditional designs of the distribution network have ignored energy efficiency, citing the case of pumping Adsubia in Jávea.
There have also been systems like EAGLE (Energy Assessment of Global Pressurized Water System), a new tool Aguas de Valencia Group that allows, from an energy point of view, check the status of the water network from the energy point of view.
