SPAIN WATER PLAN
May 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE NEW socialist government in Spain has rewritten plans developed by its conservative predecessor to boost water supplies in the south, proposing a Euro 3.7 billion scheme that relies heavily on desalination plants. Dumping controversial plans to transfer water from the northern Ebro river basin to southern Spain, the José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero government has also proposed making improvements to existing water facilities and better exploiting groundwater reserves. These new plans will cost money, (although less than the old scheme's Euro 4.2 ...
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