This purpose of this action is aimed at the link between the distribution network of the Águilas desalination plant and the irrigation network of the Irrigation Community of Puerto Lumbreras, in order to properly manage the new water resources granted.

As a solution for this link, the construction of a reservoir with a 40,000m3 intake capacity is planned, where the water will pour from Cerro Colorado using gravity, and from this reservoir an impulse to take it towards Peñas Blancas, to the existing reservoirs of the Irrigation Community.

To improve the current high level supply network in the city of Málaga, which currently runs through a system of open channeling together with the irrigation, a water catchment is made use of in the Azud de Aljaima, in the channel of the river Guadalhorce, remodeling existing pumping facilities, and a 21 kilometer pipeline from the catchment to the desalination plant of El Atabal.

The action involves the construction of pipelines connecting the major deposits of the GALASA supply network with the main pipeline executed in the previous two sub-actions. In this way the objective of ensuring supply and joint management is achieved, since each of the deposits will be supplied from the water treatment plant of Cuevas de Almanzora and from the pipeline that comes from the Carboneras desalination plant.

The regions of Solsonés, Bages and Anoia, located in the provinces of Barcelona and Lleida, in the geographic centre of Catalonia, experience great problems of supply, especially made up from the lack of guarantee of service, with many failures in the provision of water during periods of drought, and a certain insecurity about the water quality that is supplied to homes. This action is intended to supply water to the region of Solsonés and Bages from the reservoir of the Llosa del Cavall by a 52.3 km long pipeline, and several pumping stations.

The purpose of the action is to facilitate the contribution to Cenajo reservoir of supply volumes from the Tajo-Segura transfer, as well as flows from the floods of the high basin of the river Mundo. A tunnel has been built for this that is 7513.67 m long and 3.50 m inside diameter, for the conveyance of water from the Talave reservoir to the end of the Cenajo reservoir.

The purposes of the modernisation of the Acequia Mayor of Molina are to enable the implantation of modern localised irrigation techniques to promote water savings and obtain the necessary regulation against the volatility of the resources of the basin.

In the Ebro Delta there are large areas aimed at the production of rice with high water consumption. When water is no longer needed in the rice fields, much of the flow from the concession of the channels of the Right and the Left of the river Ebro river is discharged back to the river, not entering the delta system and therefore not reaching the bays at one of the most critical times of the year from the point of view of the need of fresh water. The purpose of this action is to allow the input of fresh water from irrigation canals directly to the bays.

The resources generated through desalination are incorporated into Almanzora-West Almería pipeline 1st Phase in the header pool of Venta del Pobre, through a drive that lifts water from the desalination plant in Carboneras. This action provides the infrastructure network that distributes resources for irrigation from the Carboneras desalination plant in Campo de Níjar.

STATE OF THE ACTION:
The plant entered into service in August 2005.