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Spain: EUR 50 million for water sector investments in Cantabria
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has granted a EUR 50 million loan to the Cantabria Region to help finance its investment in water and sanitation facilities.
The project is designed to increase the reliability and efficiency of the water supply in coastal areas and improve wastewater management through the construction of four treatment plants and various sewerage infrastructure schemes, enabling the Region to comply with the wastewater quality aspects of the EU urban wastewater treatment directive. The sanitation investments are partly included in the Operational Programme for the Environment and will be cofinanced by ERDF funds.
Against a background of water shortages, these schemes will have clear environmental benefits, contributing to the efforts to adapt to climate change and meet water demand. The sanitation investments will also help to reduce pollution by improving the quality of discharges into surface and coastal waters, thereby fostering the reuse of domestic wastewater for non-domestic purposes and meeting the objectives of the EU directives.
The planned investments under this loan form part of the Water Supply Master Plan and the Sanitation Master Plan for Cantabria. The project is scheduled for completion in 2016.
The schemes financed by this loan meet the EU’s objectives for environmental protection, an area in which support for projects in the water sector is a key sphere of EIB activity.
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About the EIB
The European Investment Bank (EIB)
is the long-term lending institution of the European Union owned by its Member
States. It makes long-term finance available for sound investment in order to
contribute towards EU policy goals.
| Contact information |
Matilde del Valle Serrano / Press desk
(email: m.delvalle@eib.org ; press@eib.org) Phone: +352 437983154 / +352 4379 21000 |
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| News type | Inbrief |
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| Source of information | EIB |
| Keyword(s) | water and sanitation facilities, investment, wastewater management |
| Subject(s) | ANALYSIS AND TESTS , CHARACTERISTICAL PARAMETERS OF WATERS AND SLUDGES , DRINKING WATER , DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT , ENERGY , FINANCE-ECONOMY , HEALTH - HYGIENE - PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISM , HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , INDUSTRY , INFRASTRUCTURES , MEASUREMENTS AND INSTRUMENTATION , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , NATURAL MEDIUM , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , PREVENTION AND NUISANCES POLLUTION , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY , SANITATION -STRICT PURIFICATION PROCESSES , SLUDGES , WATER QUALITY |
| Relation | http://www.eib.org/projects/pipeline/2012/20120155.htm |
| Geographical coverage | Spain |
| News date | 28/11/2012 |
| Working language(s) | ENGLISH |
