Our Water PERTE

 

PERTEs are new public-private partnership initiatives where different public administrations, companies and research bodies work together. The water-cycle digitalisation PERTE is a project that promotes the use of new information technologies in the end-to-end water cycle, which will help to improve its management, increase its efficiency, reduce losses in the supply networks and contribute towards fulfilling the environmental objectives set by the hydrological planning and international regulations. 

 

Goals.

The WATER PERTE has been developed under the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, with the following goals:

  • Enhance understanding of how water is used in order to build an integrated water-resource management approach and improve water-use efficiency in Spain.
  • Improve transparency over how water is managed in Spain and over the information available through administrations.
  • Help to fulfil the environmental goals established in the water plans for different water bodies.
  • Create highly technically skilled jobs, by investing in innovation and technology.
  • Help to address the demographic challenge, ensure that vulnerable groups are not left behind and deliver equal opportunities between women and men.

 

Actions..

The keystones of the digitalisation project include installing data-collection sensors; developing Water Master Plans, End-to-End Sanitation Plans, Water Regeneration Plans, Water Sanitation Plans and Emergency Plans (droughts and floods); updating and collecting field data for deploying the Geographic Information System for the water-supply and wastewater networks; the automation and remote control of multiple end-to-end water cycle facilities, including abstractions and discharges; the introduction and development of Geographic Information Systems (GISs); the development of smart ANR-reduction and energy-optimisation systems and the introduction of remote water-meter readings, all using systems that fully comply with cybersecurity requirements. The activities involved in Aqualia's projects are funded  by the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience - Next  Generation EU Plan, as part of the first and second calls for proposals of the Water-Cycle Digitalisation PERTE.

 

Our PERTEs..