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Acosol
currently supplies recycled water to golf courses
throughout the Costa del Sol so it can be used for
watering these sporting facilities for which the
good condition of the greens is a basic need.
Golf courses currently supplied with recycled water are: El Paraíso, Gualdamina, Los Arqueros, La Quinta, Los Naranjos, Las Brisas, Aloha, Dama de Noche, Montemayor, Benahavís Golf, Los Flamingos, La Zagaleta, El Campanario, Magna Marbella, La Resina, Doña Julia, El Cortesín, La Duquesa, La Cala, La Noria, Calanova, Torrequebrada, Cabopino, Santa María, Cerrado del Águila and El Chaparral. |
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addition, there are applications for several more.
For some of these, work is being carried out to
connect pipes to the treatment plants that supply
the clean water.
Places as well known as Selwo Park, in Estepona,
and many of the green areas in Marbella and Benalmádena
are also watered with recycled water from EDARs
- Estaciones Depuradoras de Aguas Residuales -
(Waste Water Purification Stations).
Anti-drought
resources
Acosol believes the reuse of recycled water for
watering is of vital importance as an alternative
anti-drought resource. The explanation, also
now well known, is that this water allows the use
of all "first hand" water (rainwater and rivers
from reservoirs, that from wells, that from the
desalination plant...etc) for human consumption.
It
has various advantages, of which particulary
important is the fact that recycled water
does not depend on rain, given that it always
exists throughout the year in larger or smaller
quantities.
If to this we add the fact that requirements
per person per day are continually rising
and that the population of the Western Costa
del Sol is tending to increase in a constant,
sustained manner, the use of recycled water
for watering is an absolute necessity. |
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The people that run the Association and ACOSOL intend
to continue encouraging watering with this kind
of water, as contemplated by the National Sanitation
and Waste Water Purification Plan, which states
that "adequate purification of waste water allows
it to be considered as a resource appropriate for
re-use, given the appropriate treatment, which defines
its new classification as a water resource". Or,
in other words, using purified water for watering
allows people to better distribute the water from
reservoirs, wells and other sources.
So, in 2005 a total of 54.2 cubic hectometers were treated, from where 7.5 were destined to irrigation. This trend was steady in 2006 (also higher than 7 Hm3) and 2007, keeping the same forecast for 2008. This figure is even more stunning if we compare with 2003, with a similar amount of treated water, where only 3.5 Hm3 were reused.
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