Gestión y tratamiento de agua | Water management and treatment FuturEnviro | Agosto-Septiembre August-September 2019 www.futurenviro.es 62 cientes, no ya para ejecutar las infraestructuras, si no para su adecuado mantenimiento. • Es urgente actualizar las normas de cabecera que rigen el bloque normativo del agua, para adecuarlas a la Directiva Marco del Agua y promulgar una norma que regule la colaboración público-privada, entre otras razones, para dar al sector la debida seguridad jurídica. • La colaboración público-privada en su vertiente concesional ha sufrido un varapalo importante con el Reglamento de la Ley de Desindexación, que limita la tasa de interés hasta el extremo de que la hace inviable. • Se ha incumplido y se sigue incumpliendo la Directiva Marco del Agua y en consecuencia España tiene abiertos varios procedimientos, uno de ellos con sentencia condenatoria. Esto significa que habrá que pagar multas, de hecho ya las estamos pagando, lo que nos lleva a afirmar que es mejor cumplir y gastar ese dinero en mantener, renovar y actualizar las infraestructuras existentes o en construir otras nuevas. • En lo que atañe a los servicios del agua, cabe decir que gracias al buen hacer de los operadores, por el momento no afloran los problemas ligados a la precariedad de las instalaciones, y ello, porque para mantener el servicio en las debidas condiciones han de acometer y acometen labores no contractuales, por las que en bastantes casos no obtienen la debida contraprestación económica. Otro problema que aqueja a este subsector es que en numerosos casos las tarifas no se actualizan con la debida puntualidad. • La imperiosa necesidad de un pacto nacional del y por el agua que permita la debida solidaridad entre los pueblos y regiones. No es fácil esta tarea, pero se puede conseguir; solo necesita de generosidad política. • La carencia de una adecuada educación ciudadana que interiorice en las personas la necesidad de respetar el agua y su valor. Es menester explicar ya desde la escuela que es un recurso escaso , vulnerable y necesario para disfrutar de una buena salud y referir que antes y después de consumirla hay que tratarla, y por tanto que no se puede despilfarrar ni utilizar como vertedero, entroncando esto con la necesidad de reciclar con rigor los residuos que producimos. Todo el gasto derivado de estas labores, se traducirá en un ahorro muy importante de agua y de dinero. A estas consideraciones no se opone la estimación del agua como recurso de interés económico. There is no doubt that increased investment, with a consequently a larger market, will once again result in low bids associated with the art of good construction rather than hunger. • Less activity in the area of R&D&i, which also depends on investment. companies invest less and this affects productivity. According to the national plan, the State should invest 2% of GDP in this area, whereas current investment stands at just 1.2%. The sector also has other problems, problems which in a certain sense do not depend on investment. • Responsibility for urban water cycle management lies with local bodies, which very often do not have sufficient resources, not only in terms of building infrastructure but also in terms of adequate maintenance. • It is urgently necessary to update the general regulations governing water legislation in order to bring them into line with theWater Framework Directive and facilitate legislation to regulate public-private partnership for the purpose of, amongst other things, endowing the sector with the necessary legal certainty. • Public-private partnership, in the form of the concession model, has suffered a great blow with the Deindexation Act, which limits the interest rate to a point where the model has become inviable. • There has been and there continues to be a failure to comply with theWater Framework Directive. As a result, Spain is facing a number of infringement procedures, one of which has resulted in a condemnatory sentence. This means that fines will have to be paid and in fact we are already paying these fines, leading us to believe that it is better to comply with the legislation and spend this money on maintaining, renovating and upgrading existing infrastructures or on building new infrastructures. • With respect to water services, it can be said that, thanks to the good work of operators, problems associated with the precariousness of infrastructures are not widespread. In order to maintain the necessary standard of services, operators have to carry out work not covered in contracts, meaning that, in many cases, they receive no remuneration for this work. Another problem facing the sector is the fact that, in many cases, water charges are not updated with the necessary frequency. • The imperious necessity of a national pact on and for water that would enable the necessary solidarity between towns and regions. This is not an easy task but it can be done; all that is needed is political generosity. • The lack of citizen education to inculcate the need to respect water and its value. It is necessary to explain, beginning in schools, that it is a scarce, vulnerable resource and one that is necessary in order to enjoy good health. It should be emphasised that prior to and subsequent to consumption, it must be treated, meaning that it cannot be wasted or used as a dumping ground, a fact that is linked to the necessity to recycle rigorously the waste we produce. All the expense associated with this work will result in very significant savings in both water and money. And these considerations are compatible with regarding water as a resource of economic interest. Antolín Aldonza Moreno Portavoz de la Junta Directiva. ASAGUA, Asociación Española de Empresas de Tecnologías del Agua Spokesperson of the Board of Directors at, ASAGUA, Spanish Association of Water Technology Companies
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