Managing the end-to-end water cycle
in Vallirana (Barcelona)
Salamanca renews its trust in
FCC Aqualia
until 2026
Eva Martínez, the mayor of Vallirana, and Jordi Agui-
lera, the manager of FCC Aqualia’s Catalonia and
Aragón branch offices, have signed a 19-year drin-
king water supply and sewage cleaning concession
agreement.
With this agreement and with the areas where Ai-
gües de Vallirana is already operating, FCC Aqualia
will be in charge of managing the end-to-end water
cycle in the town of Vallirana, also supplying drinking
water to several urban developments in Olesa de
Bonesvalls. Accordingly, the company is increasing
by more than 40% the number of clients in this town
The new contract in this city near
Barcelona, representing
16 million revenues,
contemplates management
of the end-to-end water cycle
in the entire municipality.
The 17-year extension of the city’s
end-to-end water management
contract with FCC represents
more than 90 million euros worth
of revenues.
In the image above,
the mayor of Vallirana
and the manager of
FCC branch office in
Catalonia after signing
the agreement.
From left to right:
Eliseo Guerra,
secretary of the City
Council, Carlos
Corbacho, and
Santiago Lafuente,
during the contract
signing ceremony.
On 9 October, the deputy mayor of Salamanca, Carlos
Corbacho, and the manager of FCC Aqualia’s Zone I
branch office, Santiago Lafuente, signed an agreement
to extend the city’s end-to-end water management
contract for another 17 years.
Since it started operations in this city on 1 January
1997, FCC Aqualia ha carried out several activities ai-
med at improving the quality of lives of its residents.
These initiatives include infrastructures, such as the
plant that treats the wastewater of the city’s 260,000
inhabitants; or innovative research such as the “Sa-
lamanca Sustainable Solids” project designed for
generating energy from the sludge produced in the
wastewater treatment process. The water service in
Salamanca currently has a portfolio of 70,000 clients
which is handled by 115 professionals dedicated to the
tasks of administration, supply and sewage networks,
management of the drinking water plant, the wastewa-
ter treatment plant, and customer services.
Thanks to the extension of this contract, which will ge-
nerate an additional 90 million euros in revenues, FCC
Aqualia shores up its positioning as the main operator
in the province of Salamanca. The company also ope-
rates in Ávila, where it manages other cities and towns,
including the capital city, as well as in Burgos, León,
Segovia and Soria. In the Castile-León Autonomous
Community, it operates 49 major facilities: 25 potable
water and 24 wastewater treatment plants, supplying
more than 47 million m3 of drinking water.
which is just 30 kilometres from Barcelona and has
a population of 15,000 people living in 20 populated
areas.
