Noticias sobre proyectos de saneamiento y abastecimiento en La Graciosa

Manuel Miranda announces that next month there will be a new follow-up meeting on the supply and sanitation projects with residents and business owners of the eighth island

The Government allocates 400,000 euros in 2025 for well cleaning, while the project to complete sanitation and purification is being processed

The Minister of Territorial Policy, Territorial Cohesion, and Water of the Government of the Canary Islands, Manuel Miranda, announced today in Parliament that the department he heads will award the drafting of the project to complete the sanitation and purification of wastewater in La Graciosa during the first half of April. Miranda recalled that, while this initiative is being processed, «the Government is covering the costs of well cleaning through a grant of 400,000 euros in 2025 to the Teguise City Council,» an investment that adds to another 200,000 euros allocated for this purpose in 2024.

In response to a parliamentary question about this project, the Water official recalled that it is a priority action for the regional government. As proof, he noted that on December 9, planning was suspended and transitional rules were approved, and on January 29, the project was declared of regional interest. «We are following the roadmap agreed with residents and business owners,» he said, «with whom we will meet again next April to report on progress, both in the sanitation and purification project and in the supply project.»

Regarding the latter, Manuel Miranda reported that it is already in environmental processing and that his department expects that «before the end of the year, the replacement of the pipeline supplying water to the island can begin,» at an approximate cost of 2.3 million euros. The minister recalled that the aim of this intervention is to definitively solve the historical supply problems faced by residents and business owners of La Graciosa.

Regarding the project to complete sanitation and purification, «we have managed to provide legal certainty to carry out the work, which was halted in 2017 due to urban planning issues,» Miranda said. This project must be completed by October of this year, to continue its environmental processing and start the works in the first quarter of 2026.

Manuel Miranda recalled that there are two million euros in the budgets of the department he heads for both projects, and highlighted «the close collaboration with both the Lanzarote Island Council and the Teguise City Council in the development of the process, and the ongoing communication with the residents and business owners of La Graciosa.»