Algaida demands the Council not to use the town's water to clean the Manacor road
The City Council knows of the existence of three water intake points that the Department of Roads uses on the Manacor road corridor
ManacorThe water crisis in Pla de Mallorca is entering a new chapter in terms of savings due to the lack of water resources in the region. The Algaida City Council yesterday approved a motion from the PSIB governing team, through which the plenary session requests the Consell de Mallorca to stop using water from the municipality's aquifers "with urgency" for the cleaning and maintenance tasks of the Manacor road (Ma-15). The motion was approved unanimously by all parties present in the plenary session, PSIB, PP, and MÉS per Algaida.
The document goes further and in one of its agreements also requests that the same measure be applied to the sections of the road and the roundabouts in the municipalities of Montuïri and Vilafranca.
In this regard, it warns that the Algaida City Council is aware of the existence of three water intake points used by the Road Department of the Consell de Mallorca in the Manacor road corridor, located in the municipalities of Algaida, Montuïri, and Vilafranca de Bonany, "intended for the maintenance of the road network and associated green areas".
Thus, the City Council, led by mayor Margalida Fullana, explains that "in a context marked by a lack of rainfall, rising temperatures, and increasing pressure on water resources, responsible water management must be a priority shared by all public administrations".
In this regard, the motion argues that "if citizens in general, farmers and ranchers are asked to be careful with water consumption, it is evident that administrations must also use water responsibly.
Truckloads on the road
The municipality's request is justified by the fact that the intake point located on the Manacor road, within the municipal district of Algaida, "has even required external water supplies by tanker trucks to maintain availability".
The alternative proposed by the motion is to use regenerated water from treatment plants and other sources that allow reducing pressure on aquifers to carry out the necessary maintenance and cleaning tasks on the road.
The motion requests the Council to instruct the concessionary company responsible for the maintenance of the PAMASA (Palma Manacor SA) highway, to review the water consumption criteria for the maintenance of green areas and road infrastructure.
Maximum alert
It should be remembered that in June the Algaida City Council declared a state of "maximum alarm" in a message to the public, in which it called for moderation in the use of water. At that time, it reported that consumption records of 69,800 liters in one hour were detected in the municipality. Curiously, the highest consumption moments were concentrated especially during evenings and night hours, supposedly for watering gardens, cleaning terraces, and filling swimming pools.
Given this situation, the City Council recalled that, as it also did in the motion approved yesterday, that "Pina and Randa depend exclusively on the water we extract from municipal wells and underground aquifers. We have no other source of supply of our own.".