The announcement by the Lloret de Mar tourism sector to have a desalination plant to fill swimming pools and allocate the surplus for domestic consumption could have some replicas in other tourist towns on the Costa Brava coast.
Members of the Associació d’Empresaris Roses-Cap de Creus have met with the City Council, to whom they have proposed several measures so that tourism companies can fill their swimming pools this summer and guarantee water in the municipality, which is currently in phase emergency, like sixteen other towns on the Girona coast.
A situation that prevents filling or refilling swimming pools unless it is done with seawater. Given this situation, in the meeting held between the two parties, several options were discussed to guarantee water this summer, such as the possible installation of desalination plants.
The president of the association, Miquel Gotanegra, has requested that a large desalination plant be installed to serve all companies and has proposed locating it in the area of ??the old shellfish treatment plant.
Unlike the hoteliers of Lloret de Mar, who will be the ones who will pay in full for the installation, in this case the City Council is asked to pay for the infrastructure, which if it ends up being carried out, would be municipal.
Currently, about 200 businessmen who employ about 5,000 workers are grouped in the entity. Gotanegra assures that swimming pools do not represent more than 2% of the overall consumption of a tourist establishment.
Not only companies would benefit from the desalination plant, but also all those who need this water resource. “Roses is prepared and works with the City Council with enough time in advance to look for alternatives to the mains water supply so that the tourist season can take place,” explains Gotanegra.
At the moment, the request from the Roses businessmen is just a proposal that the City Council is studying.
