From
http://80.37.62.109:8081/notapremsa/not-llegir.php?id=168 (in Catalan)
A delegation of members from the
Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection (
中华人民共和国环境保护部), the
Changjiang Water Resources Commission (
长江水利委员会) and the
Yellow River Conservancy Commission (
黄河水利委员会) visited two water reuse projects in
Costa Brava, in
Tossa de Mar and
Lloret de Mar (
Girona,
Catalonia) on October 22nd, 2011, as part of the
EU China River Basin Management Program (RBMP) to strengthen their capacity in decentralized
wastewater treatment and reuse. The delegation was lead by Dutch professor
Peter van der Steen, coordinator of the modules "
Integrated Urban Water Management" and "
Sustainable Wastewater Treatment and Reuse" at the
UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education. The aim of the visit was to learn from the experience of
Consorci Costa Brava on
water reclamation and reuse in the two municipalities that started having a municipal network for the distribution of
reclaimed water for non-potable purposes, as a means to
conserve water and
save energy -as compared with the energy costs of drinking water production and supply in the area-. The delegation visited the
Tossa de Mar water reclamation treatment and the main reuse sites in the village, as well as the
Santa Clotilde gardens in
Lloret de Mar, where reclaimed water is used since May 2007.
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Visit at the Tossa de Mar reclamation plant[/caption]
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Group picture of the delegation at the Santa Clotilde gardens, Lloret de Mar[/caption]
More pictures of these visits to
Tossa de Mar and
Lloret de Mar can be seen at the
Sinalunya Flickr site.
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