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Guarantees
The entire project is hedged about with
guarantees. The safety of the local popu-
lation is triply ensured: by the safety mea-
sures set in the project design, by a series
of regular checks run by the Ebro River Hy-
drographic Confederation and the Catalan
Water Agency, and lastly by the emergency
plan approved on 14 February last by the
civil protection authorities with the maxi-
mum consensus.
This decontamination project will improve
the quality of the river’s water. The Ebro
provides drinking water for over a million
people and irrigation for more than 50,000
hectares of land. It also creates the Ebro
River Delta, a protected area and natural
park.
Decontaminating the Flix Reservoir has
been declared an urgent, high-priority pro-
ject of general interest. The project adheres
to the principles of the A.G.U.A. Program-
me, whose initials in Spanish stand for “Ac-
tions for Water Management and Use”. The
programme includes actions to improve
water management and water supplies in
accordance with existing and future needs
linked to sustainable land development.
The 165-million-euro Flix Reservoir decon-
tamination project draws 30% of its funding
from the Spanish government and 70%
from the European Union Cohesion Fund.
There is furthermore a Land Restitution Plan
associated with the project, whose aim it
is to provide compensation for the people
affected by the work. This associated plan
entails another 57 million euros’ investment,
split between the national government (36
million) and the Catalan government (21 mi-
llion), making for a total investment of over
200 million euros, the biggest investment
ever for a decontamination project in Spain,
according to the Ministry of Agriculture,
Food and the Environment.