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ces; the start-up launch new supply pro-jects; and use water resources in a more effcient manner.

In mid-2007, a consortium led by FCC won the largest hydraulic project ever put out to tender in Mexico, contemplating a 20-year concession, construction, and exploitation of the hydraulic system known as the Aque-duct II in Querétaro.

The FCC staff involved n this project were: Emilio Soler Rangel, the representative of Aqualia Infrastructures; Lucas de Marcos de la Torre, manager of Aqualia Infrastructure’s Aqueduct II Construction project; Alfonso López González, the superintendent of the ETAP, Bordo de Seguridad y Tanques de Reserva civil works division; Luis Alberto Palacios Moreno, superintended to Aqualia Infrastructure’s Electromechanical Equip-ment; Roberto Sánchez Merecías, super-

intendent of FCC Construction’s impulsion Line; Luis Miguel Mira, superintendent of Equipos Electrónicos ETAP, Aqualia Infras-tructures; and Abel Asín Belsue, superin-tendent of the Aqualia Infrastructure roll-out department, all of whom made this project

possible. It will certainly become one of the most important urban civil projects of the 21st century.

This project will have a major impact on the future of Querétaro, Mexico’s President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa stated when he, jointly with Jose Calzada Rovirosa, the go-vernor of the state, inaugurated the new FCC-built potable water distribution sys-tem. “It is a great day for Querétaro and for the country” the president said. He also mentioned that thanks to this project, Querétaro’s population would have guaran-teed water supply and that this would be very benefcial.

With this civil work, it will be possible to transfer 50 million cubic meters of water of water every year from the semi-desert re-gion to the Querétaro metropolitan area.

The water router runs 128 kilometers nor-theast to southeast in the state of Queré-taro, crossing the Panúco and the Lerma-Chapala river basins. The source of the water is the Infernillo springs in the Moc-tezuma River, four kilometers downstream from the rock formation where the canyon, with the same name, is born.

With the rollout Aqueduct II, the drinking water supply for the citizens of Querétaro is guaranteed for the next 30 years.

The Aqueduct II system will supply

50 million cubic meters of Water/year, making it one of the most Important urban projects of the 21st century.