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– Organised by Aguas de Murcia, Cetaqua, and Aquatec, a company of the Agbar Group, the meeting brought together more than 60 attendees to discuss the details of this new regulation and debate its application.
The European project LIFE WARRIOR held its workshop in Murcia “Reuse for agricultural irrigation and Directive EU 741/2020”, a meeting that brought together more than 60 attendees to discuss the details of this new regulation and debate its application.
Organized by Aguas de Murcia (EMUASA), Cetaqua, and Aquatec, a company of the Grupo Agbar, this forum served to learn about all the challenges of the regulation for water reuse in the Region of Murcia. In addition, some innovative projects such as LIFE WARRIOR were shared and discussions were held on microbiological risks in reclaimed water and the social perception of the use of this water.
At the beginning of the session, the new situation arising from the European Regulation EU 741/2020 was contextualized, a regulation that establishes minimum quality and water control requirements, as well as provisions on risk management for the safe use of reclaimed water for agricultural irrigation. Eva Mena, Innovation Manager at EMUASA, was in charge of explaining to attendees what challenges this law poses for water reuse in the Region of Murcia.
Pau Berenguer, project manager of the LIFE WARRIOR project, presented this initiative that promotes the use of reclaimed water for irrigation: “With the implementation of recycled membranes we not only produce quality water suitable for agricultural irrigation, but we also revalue a waste product and reduce the carbon footprint”.
The purpose of the European Regulation EU 741/2020 is to ensure that reclaimed water is safe for agricultural irrigation. In this regard, Sonia Hernández, Head of Concessions and Authorizations Service of the Confederación Hidrográfica del Segura, explained during this workshop the new permits for water reuse.
In that same line, Ana Allende, scientific researcher at CEBAS-CSIC, detailed the biological risks in reclaimed water, as well as the challenges associated in this regard to the new regulation.
During the workshop, a survey was conducted with questions that made it dynamic and allowed different opinions on the use of reclaimed water to be known. Finally, José Ángel Zabala, researcher at the University of Murcia, grounded all the responses to be able to explain what the current social perception of the use of reclaimed water in the region of Murcia is.
