Câmara de Nelas is reusing treated wastewater to supply industries in the municipality, as part of a water cycle sustainability project, which relieves pressure on the domestic consumption system.
In a note sent this Monday to the Lusa agency, the municipality explained that this project will be “help solve quantitative water problems at the origin of the Fagilde supply subsystem” and also “reduce water stress” that consumers introduce into the municipal supply system.
Together with the companies, the municipality implemented “a project that simultaneously aims to collaborate in the solution of water supply to the industries of the municipality that need it for their production process, through its reuse.”
To do this, it acquired two pumping groups and their respective connections, for installation in the Nelas III Wastewater Treatment Station (WWTP), “which guarantee, through transport by tanker truck, about 1,200 cubic meters/day of treated wastewater for the country’s industries.
To ensure continuous supply, the municipality of Nelas has secured a 61-cubic-meter reservoir and a 62-cubic-meter compact WWTP to continuously supply trucks with a capacity of 25 to 30 cubic meters that transport treated wastewater. ”.
According to the municipality, “the supplies began in the month of July”, in an experimental manner, and “intensified during the last week, with the application of this new equipment”.
With this “clear commitment to the reuse of wastewater, whose treatment is carried out in the Nelas III WWTP”, the industries of the municipality will achieve, this summer, “better management of water resources through a more sustainable alternative source”.
In this way, the municipality achieves “the maintenance of water in the environment and its conservation for future uses, safeguarding its current use, in accordance with the principles of the circular economy”.
The Nelas City Council has already adopted other measures, such as the suspension of automatic irrigation with water from the public supply through manual irrigation with non-potable water, greater surveillance of the water distribution system and the installation of two rechlorination stations (in Canas de Senhorim and Carvalhal Redondo).
With this reserve created for industrial purposes and with the quality of the treated wastewater, it will be possible to supply the business fabric, minimizing the effects of the current period of drought and, above all, safeguarding the supply to the population of the municipality of Nelas. ”.
The executive of the city council wants it that way”prevent water scarcity found throughout the territory due to the period of drought that the country is currently going through, making it possible to increase the resilience of the systems, a measure that is foreseen in the Action Program for Adaptation to Climate Change”.
Source: Observadora
