Spain: ACCIONA Agua awarded water management contract in Cáceres

The contract is worth 300 million euros.

ACCIONA Agua has been awarded a 24-year contract by the Cáceres City Government to provide municipal drinking water supply and sewage and wastewater treatment services. The contract is worth over 300 million euros.

ACCIONA Agua's bid included advance payment of 37.7 million euros in fees, a variable annual fee of 4%, and capital expenditure of 27 million euros to refurbish infrastructure and install technological improvements and innovations.

ACCIONA Agua will provide end-to-end water management services, covering the entire water treatment cycle: capture, potabilisation, meter maintenance and reading, sanitation and sewage treatment, and customer management. Moreover, the company will perform continuous water analyses in its labs with a view to ensuring maximum quality tap water for the end user.

The company has undertaken to improve the water infrastructure so that it is more efficient and environmentally sustainable. These measures include implementation of the latest advances in remote control systems and geographical information systems (GIS), network modelling and segmentation, reservoir expansion, network refurbishment and facility modernisation. ACCIONA Agua has similar contracts in over 70 municipalities in Spain, serving more than 2 million people.

The company's most significant water management contracts include the provision of municipal drinking water, sewage and treatment services in Soria; end-to-end water management in the Tropical Coast of Granada Group of Municipalities; end-to-end water management as part of a public-private partnership with the Jaén Provincial Government in more than 35 municipalities, serving over 250,000 people; end-to-end municipal water management services in Molina de Segura (Murcia); and operation and maintenance of the entire sewer network in Valencia and surrounding areas. In Madrid, ACCIONA Agua operates the sewage networks in the Viveros and La China catchment areas. ACCIONA Agua has been providing municipal drinking water supply and sewage and waste water treatment services in Úbeda (Jaén province) since September 2010.