• will serve some 150,000 inhabitants of the municipality of Boca del Rio, in the metropolitan area of Veracruz, for the next thirty years.
• ACCIONA Water will invest in the concession 100 million of euros, of which more than 80 million are destined to the improvement of the hydraulic infrastructures of the integral water cycle.
ACCIONA Water has been awarded the Integral Water Management Service of the municipality of Boca del Rio, in the metropolitan area of Veracruz, in southeastern Mexico, for a period of 30 years. The contract – which amounts to about 800 million euros – provides for water management to manage the provision of public services for the supply and distribution of potable water, operation of the sewage network and treatment of wastewater, and Take care of the management of the more than 50,000 customers paid to the service.
The objective of the contract is the improvement in the service of potable water that the users receive, consisting in increasing the continuity of the service and the quantity and quality of the water. ACCIONA Water will invest in the concession 100 million of euros, of which more than 80 million are destined to the improvement of the hydraulic infrastructures. Another very important aspect is to improve the technical efficiency of the nets to reduce the high water losses that occur in the hydraulic system and consequently improve the environmental impact.
Customers will be given commercial attention based on information and permanent transparency, supported by the implementation of new information and knowledge technologies (ICT). The purpose of the contract is to improve the service of drinking water that users receive, consisting of increasing the continuity of service and the quantity and quality of the water. “
For the management of the contract, a company will be constituted in which the City Council (2%) participates as shareholders, Acciona Water (69%) and Malibran (29%), being Acciona water the technological partner. The resulting company will be a company of water of Mouth (CAB).
Extensive experience in water treatment and management
ACCIONA Water has participated in the development of emblematic works of water infrastructures in Mexico as the wastewater treatment plant of Atotonilco in the state of Hidalgo-considered the largest in the world-in addition to other water infrastructures in all The world. From Australia, where ACCIONA has built the desalination plant in Adelaide, to Canada, where he is currently building two of the most important water works in the country: the St. John’s purification plant in Toronto or the North Shore purifier in Vancouver. In addition, ACCIONA Water attends through contracts similar to the newly awarded in Boca del Rio, to more than 180 municipalities between Spain, Italy and Peru with a total served population of more than 17 million inhabitants.
Among the most outstanding contracts of ACCIONA’s water management are the management of the integral water cycle for the Commonwealth of Municipalities of the Costa Tropical of Granada, the integral service through a joint venture with the Diputación de Jaén in more than 35 municipalities Providing service to more than 250,000 inhabitants, integral management of urban services in Molina de Segura (Murcia), Operation and maintenance service of the entire sewer network of Valencia, management of corrective maintenance of water systems Potable and sewer of Lima in Peru or the management of the sewer network of Florence in Italy, also the company carries out in Madrid the services of exploitation of the sewer network of 50,% of the municipal territory and in the city of Úbeda (city patrimony of humanity), ACCIONA Water manages the municipal public services of household water supply, sewerage and wastewater purification.
Extensive Mexican experience
ACCIONA inaugurated in 1978 its first office in Mexico, belonging to the infrastructure division. Currently, it is one of the most outstanding markets, apart from Spanish, in which ACCIONA has relevant projects in all its areas of business.
ACCIONA has participated in the development of emblematic infrastructure works such as the Atotonilco Wastewater Treatment Plant – considered the largest in the world-, the Jala-Puerto Vallarta Road or the first General Hospital of the Mexican Institute of Social Security in Nogales, among others. In addition, ACCIONA is part of the consortium that at the beginning of the year was awarded for the construction of the passenger terminal of the New Mexico City Airport. Recently, ACCIONA Industrial was selected by the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) of Mexico to build the transmission network associated with the combined cycle of Topolobampo III, which consists of the design and construction of four works: two lines of Transmission and two substations located in the states of Sinaloa and Sonora, a turnkey project of 21 million euros.
ACCIONA is also a leader in Mexico in the provision of renewable energies with wind 557MW installed on property and wind 252MW built for customers. In addition, it was awarded in the two auctions held last year in the framework of the Mexican energy reform, for a total of 395MW, which will begin to serve, in two phases, in 2018 and 2019.
In addition, ACCIONA’s real estate business is also present in the country, with landmark projects in Mexico City and Acapulco. Finally, the Acciona Microenergía Foundation is carrying out photovoltaic rural electrification projects in localities with less than 100 inhabitants of which 30,000 people in the state of Oaxaca benefit.
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