Algarve boroughs will use money to renovate water supply systems
Twenty bids for funding to renovate water supply systems and reduce losses in nine Algarve municipalities have been approved as part of Portugal’s Recovery and Resilience Plan (shortened to PRR in Portuguese).
The announcement was made on Tuesday by the Algarve Municipalities Association (AMAL), which explained that the bids – totalling €16.8 million – were approved as they are aligned with the number one measure (SM1) of the Algarve’s water efficiency plan, which is to “reduce water losses in the urban sector.”
The bids were presented by the municipalities of Albufeira, Castro Marim, Faro, Lagoa, Lagos, Loulé, Monchique, São Brás de Alportel and Silves, AMAL says.
According to the association, a total of 53 bids have already been approved, amounting to €42.1 million and involving 157 construction and service acquisition projects as part of the region’s water efficiency plan, which includes the “rehabilitation of water supply networks, installation of measurement and control zones, and creation of controlled pressure zones.”
“In the vast majority of cases, the works are underway,” the AMAL statement adds.
By 2026, 125 kilometres of the region’s low-level water supply network will be rehabilitated, AMAL estimates, reducing the amount of water that the Algarve requires from “natural systems” by two cubic hectometres.
