Algaida demands that the Council not use the town's water to clean the Manacor road
The City Council is aware of the existence of three water intake points used by the Department of Roads in the Manacor road corridor
ManacorThe water crisis in Pla de Mallorca is experiencing a new chapter in terms of savings due to the lack of water resources that the region is suffering. The Algaida City Council yesterday approved a motion by the PSIB government team through which the plenary calls on the Consell de Mallorca to stop using water from the municipality's aquifers "urgently" to carry out the cleaning and maintenance tasks of the Manacor road (Ma-15). The motion was approved unanimously by all parties present in the plenary, PSIB, PP, and MÉS per Algaida.
The text goes further and in one of its agreements also asks that the same measure be applied to the sections of the road and the roundabouts that are within the municipal terms 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 municipal terms 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 the mayor, Margalida Fullana, explains that "in a context marked by a lack of rain, rising temperatures, and growing pressure on water resources, responsible water management must be a priority shared by all public administrations".
In this sense, the motion argues that "if citizens in general, farmers and ranchers, are asked to be careful in their water consumption, it is evident that administrations must also make responsible use of water.
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 its availability".
The alternative proposed by the motion is to use regenerated water from treatment plants or other sources that allow reducing the pressure on aquifers to carry out the necessary maintenance and cleaning tasks on the road.
In the motion, the Council is requested to instruct the concessionaire 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 last June the Algaida City Council declared a state of "maximum alarm" in a message to the population, calling for caution in the use of water. At that time, it reported that consumption records of 69,800 liters per hour were detected in the municipality. Curiously, the peak consumption times were concentrated especially during the 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 does 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 own source of supply".
